Re: [PLUG] Apache2 weird problem

apt-get install --reinstall apache2-bin

On Friday, January 29, 2016, Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org> wrote:

BTW this is Debian/Ubuntu: ubuntu 14.04 LTS

#I did what Rachel suggested:
root@mymachine:/etc/init.d# service apache2 status
root@mymachine:/etc/init.d# service apache2 configtest
root@mymachine:/etc/init.d# apt-get install --reinstall
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.

#even if I include 'apache2' as a parameter to reinstall I get a similar result:
root@mymachine:/var/log# apt-get install --reinstall apache2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/87.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 243515 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../apache2_2.4.7-1ubuntu4.9_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking apache2 (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.9) over (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.9) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for ufw (0.34~rc-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up apache2 (2.4.7-1ubuntu4.9) ...
root@mymachine:/var/log# apache2ctl start
/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 143: /usr/sbin/apache2ctl: /usr/sbin/apache2: not found
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

#except the error logs are empty.

On 01/29/2016 11:17 AM, Rachel Rawlings wrote:
The apache daemon is normally taken care of by apachectl, as Keith said above.

Look in /etc/init.d for your server control script (apache2, iirc, for Ubuntu) and do

$ sudo service apache2 status
$ sudo service apache2 configtest

If you have no running process and no errors, you can start the daemon again, but mist likely there's either an error in the config or a permission problem on thr logs (which have to be writable by apache).

If you have no daemon at all, then back up /etc/apache2 and do 'apt-get install --reinstall'

On Jan 29, 2016 12:04 AM, "Josh Zenker" <jzenker@gmail.com> wrote:

On my Ubuntu 14.04.3 system, it looks like the apache2 binary is actually installed by the apache2-bin package.

$ dpkg -L apache2-bin | grep '/usr/sbin'

/usr/sbin

/usr/sbin/apache2

Have you tried reinstalling apache2-bin? I believe it is a dependency for apache2 and may not have been reinstalled in your previous steps.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Bill Patterson <patterson@computer.org> wrote:

Dear Colleagues -

I don't know how it happened. I was debugging PHP with NetBeans, and after a distraction I went back to it and found that the server wasn't running. I tried to restart Apache. I completely removed and purged it and reinstalled it. It now says it is installed but if I type "apache2 -v" it says the program isn't installed:

me@mymachine:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2
[sudo] password for me:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
apache2 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 69 not upgraded.
me@mymachine:~$ apache2 -v
The program 'apache2' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install apache2-bin
me@mymachine:~$

any ideas?

Bill
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