I recently requested a change to my root password which was successful and I am able to use it on the console. However, my IP address stopped working. Both visiting my domain and SSH are responding with a connection timed out error.
It was working fine until my root password changed and the server was restarted.
I checked the error log using this command:
tail -50 /var/log/apache2/error.log
And this is what i got:
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 994] AH00163: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [core:notice] [pid 994] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 981] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 970] AH00163: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020 [core:notice] [pid 970] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 903] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 903] AH00163: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [core:notice] [pid 994] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 994] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 970] AH00163: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.0.2g configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 20 00:47:06.157921 2020] [core:notice] [pid 990] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
Notice the SIGTERM, shutting down
? I think Apache is crashing and the service is auto-restarting.
At first I thought it was as a result of low memory usage then I checked with this command free -mh
here are the results. My Ram is enough:
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1.9G 259M 1.4G 612K 258M 1.6G
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
Firewall is inactive so nothing is blocking port 80
sudo ufw status
Status: Inactive
I also run this command to see what’s being listened on
sudo lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
sshd 812 root 3u IPv4 18468 0t0 TCP localhost:53 (LISTEN)
sshd 812 root 4u IPv6 18468 0t0 TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
mysqld 899 mysql 29u IPv4 19368 0t0 TCP localhost:3306 (LISTEN)
master 1089 root 13u IPv4 19478 0t0 TCP *:25 (LISTEN)
master 1089 root 14u IPv6 19479 0t0 TCP *:25 (LISTEN)
Could I be my Apache configurations?
here is what is being listened to on my /etc/apache2/ports.conf
grep "Listen" /etc/apache2/*.conf
etc/apache2/ports.conf: Listen 0.0.0.0
etc/apache2/ports.conf: Listen 433
etc/apache2/ports.conf: Listen 433
I can’t even restart apache it doesn’t let me
service apache2 restart
Job for apache2.service failed because the control proccess exited with error code. See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
On running that command I got this:
apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
apache-system.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-01-20 12:16:35 UTC; 4min 9s
Process: 1616 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Is this normal? Please help
2
Answers
Your conf file has the wrong port numbers for HTTPS. It should be "443" not "433".
in my case got this error from a untidy composed tutorial
I had syntax error on line 9, i removed word ‘combined’ in it and cntrl-X ed file and now it runs ok. Also there renamed ‘CustomErrorLog’ to ‘AccessLog’ next to
${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log