Apache Error Troubleshooting: Easyache Fails and Apache Fails To Start Too

• 04 October 2021
• in: Tutorials

At times server administrators might run into a scenario where, once attempting to rebuild apache it tends to go on failing and keep throwing a error that seems like :

Updating Apache configuration
Updating Apache configuration
Distilled successfully
!! Executing '/scripts/initsslhttpd' !!
!! Executing '/scripts/update_apachectl' !!
!! Restarting 'httpd' ... !!
!! Failed to restart Apache. !!
!! Apache restart failed. Unable to load pid from pid file and no httpd process found in process list.
If apache restart reported success but it failed soon after, it may be caused by oddities with mod_ssl.
You should run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/ssl_crt_status as part of your troubleshooting process. Pass it --help for more details.
Also be sure to examine apache's various log files.
!! Archiving successful build so it can be restored via --restore-archive once the httpd.conf are resolved !!
!! 'safecopy(/usr/local/apache/etc, /usr/local/apache.ea3-buildok-confgen-failed)' did not return true !!
!! '/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf.1348625171' does not exist, using '/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf' instead !!
!! Done Archiving successful build !!
!! Restoring original working apache !!
!! Executing '/scripts/initsslhttpd' !!

This is actually because of the SSL settings in Apache – resetting the SSL ciphers to default settings so running the easy apache should assist you resolve the issue.

If you have hosted a server with us, then feel free to contact our technical support team for help with respect to this issue.