apache cannot start after creating a new site

I made a new site yesterday with all default settings, didn't touch anything except I created a db for it to mess with some old db I had etc.

today I run ubuntu again and apache won't start
I run:
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

and get:

Code:

 * Starting web server apache2                                                                                                                                                                                    Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/example.bounceme.net/web] does not exist
Syntax error on line 54 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/example.bounceme.net.vhost:
can't get fastcgi file info: /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter(/var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter), errno: 2
                                                                                                                                                                                                           [fail]

contents of example.bounceme.net.vhost are:

Code:

<Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
      DocumentRoot /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web
  
    ServerName example.bounceme.net
    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/example.bounceme.net/error.log

    ErrorDocument 400 /error/400.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html
    ErrorDocument 405 /error/405.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.html
    ErrorDocument 503 /error/503.html
    
    <Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client3/web2/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # Clear PHP settings of this website
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
        SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
    # php as fast-cgi enabled
    <IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
      # SocketPath /tmp/fcgid_sock/
      IdleTimeout 3600
      ProcessLifeTime 7200
      # MaxProcessCount 1000
      DefaultMinClassProcessCount 3
      DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100
      IPCConnectTimeout 8
      IPCCommTimeout 360
      BusyTimeout 300
    </IfModule>
    <Directory /var/www/example.bounceme.net/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client3/web2/web>
        AddHandler fcgid-script .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        FCGIWrapper /var/www/php-fcgi-scripts/web2/.php-fcgi-starter .php
        Options +ExecCGI
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    # add support for apache mpm_itk
    <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
      AssignUserId web2 client3
    </IfModule>


</VirtualHost>

any help please ? I am noob and only solution for me without a help will be to reinstall server ... much mess !
any help appreciated

 

very nice

guess what. I reinstalled the server all from scratch.
created a new site, made a db and an ftp user for it.

all connected fine except ftp user.

so I restarted computer.
same result as above but with web1 this time.

it was working perfect. go NO IDEA what went wrong with it....

edit: I am following this step by step and doing it all perfect:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu-9.10-ispconfig-3


the exact msg I get on terminal after apache restart is this:

* Restarting web server apache2
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/example.bounceme.net/web] does not exist
apache2: bad user name web1

 

well I am reinstalling again (HAPPY HOURS !!)

some comments I would like you to clear for me if possible,
I always get stuck at this point on this page:
The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 9.10 [ISPConfig 3] - Page 4
Next we install maildrop as follows:

update-alternatives --remove-all maildir.5
update-alternatives --remove-all maildirquota.7

I get the this on terminal:
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for maildir.5.

so searching for this I found this topic:
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43518

.. and this rsd-17 guy suggests to do place them like this that doesn't give back an error so this is what I do:

update-alternatives --remove-all maildir.5.gz
update-alternatives --remove-all maildirquota.7.gz

hope this is not what causes the mess !

 

sure............................

 

of course this is absolutely logical, of course I know that, but thanks for explaining.

All I mean is, I got no idea how it happened. Now it works because I didn't touch the php.ini files yet.

When it comes to this moment I think the problem will come back !

 

I agree, but now, cause when it happened I didn't know such changes can screw it,
All I had changed was these:

/etc/php5/cgi/
/etc/php5/apache2/
/etc/php5/cli/

changes:
display_errors = Off
disable_functions = show_source, system, shell_exec, passthru, exec, phpinfo, popen, proc_open
allow_url_fopen = Off
memory_limit = 64M
upload_max_filesize = 50M
post_max_size = 64M
max_execution_time = 300
session.gc_maxlifetime = 10000


make ftpd show hidden files:
echo "yes" > /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/DisplayDotFiles


you think those could affect ?

 

thanks till, this was it then, I see.

.. this means I will have to find a way to alter php.ini per site. Must be somewhere in the forum I guess.

 

i have thesame trouble, but nothing cant do with that...
Warning: DocumentRoot [/var/www/user/data/www/2sport.ru] does not exist
apache2: bad user name
trying to find some in srv:/etc/init.d... but still apache is not working (((

 

actually im using not ISPconfig, but ISPManager pro, but is no point because it doesnt work without apache, so i legged by SHH to try fix it

 

i know about that, but only that topic helped me to fix my problem
and thanks for your assitment and understanding anyway.