Every so often say 1 time a week apache crashes on me i can not seam to restart it or get any responce of viewing websites. When i try to restart it i get is Reloading web server config...httpd not running, trying to start (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs This just means i have to reboot the server and it works again but bit of pain when i have no access to computer and it goes down. Can anyone help me? Debian
I have the same problem on a debian wood. It seems that the apache main process dies, but some child processes and the SSL apache process where still alive. I've written a small php script that checks the apache logfile for the error, kills all remaining httpd processes and restarts apache. Its not a nice solution, but it works for me until i find the resaon why apache fails. Code: <?php exec('grep "returned a Fatal error..." /var/log/apache/error.log > /tmp/apache_error_test.log'); clearstatcache(); if(filesize("/tmp/apache_error_test.log") > 0) { // killing apache processes exec("killall apache"); // make a backup of the error logfile exec("cp /var/log/apache/error.log /var/log/apache/fatal_error.log"); // empty the error log exec("cat /dev/null > /var/log/apache/error.log"); sleep(5); // starting apache websrver exec("/etc/init.d/apache start"); } ?> I run this script as cronjob.
