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How to resolve chown: invalid user while starting apache server?

I am trying to start apache2 services by running-

sudo service apache2 start

But it is resulting in-

Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

I tried-

sudo systemctl status apache2.service

and it’s showing-

● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2020-12-08 11:17:18 IST; 7min ago
       Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
    Process: 30529 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Dec 08 11:17:18 dk systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
Dec 08 11:17:18 dk apachectl[30535]: chown: invalid user: 'dk'
Dec 08 11:17:18 dk systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 08 11:17:18 dk systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 08 11:17:18 dk systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.

I am assuming the problem is with invalid user: dk. How can i resolve this?
Also I recently removed one user account which already had LAMP stack installed. Is that the reason why it’s showing invalid user?

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  1. 0

    You must see in the file:
    /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
    or
    /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

    • what is the entered user and what group

    normally it is:

    User www-data
Group www-data

    or maybe in your case it is "dk"

    in addition, you may have specified in the server file that the site location is in a directory owned by "dk".

    Check the server configuration with the command:

    apachectl configtest

    or

    sudo apachectl configtest
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  2. 0

    In new systems, e.g. ubuntu 20 * LTS, the configuration file is /etc/apache2/envvars

    look for APACHE_RUN_USER and APACHE_RUN_GROUP.

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