new sites not showing in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf

I just installed ISPConfig on my Mandriva 2005 (10.2) server and everything works fine but I am having a small problem with Apache 2 .0.50 (?) Vhosts_ispconfig.conf file.

I created a new Client, then a New Site for that client but the file
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf
does not reflect the change made in ISPConfig web interface for a new Virtual Host.

When I look at the backup
/etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf-<some date and time>
the Virtual host is correctly adjusted with the new vhost. but for some reason it is not in the main conf file. Yet, the file modified date/time stamp shows the same as the backup file.

Any ideas?

 

Most probably this happens because your Apache is missing some module needed by the Vhosts ISPConfig writes.
Are there any warnings in /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/ispconfig.log?

Also, what's in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf and /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf-<some date and time>?

 

Hmmm... I see the problem in the Log file.

Code:

: WARNING: could not httpd -t  &> /dev/null
: httpd syntax seems to contain errors, reloading with old configuration
: mv -f /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf_23-01-06_23-45-49
: mv -f /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf~ /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf

I checked the syntax by

Code:

[root@webenergy conf]# httpd -t
Syntax error on line 45 of /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf:
Invalid command 'php_admin_flag', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Hmm. Line 45 says

Code:

php_admin_flag safe_mode Off

This is a standard command right? I figure its the 'php_admin_flag' option. Any idea which module or option I can add to fix it?

 

Firstly, I double checked and I have Apache2_mod-php installed. Actually I have had php working fine before I installed ISPconfig. but that doesn't matter, I don't think.

I traced my problem down to directory name changes I made from
/var/www/html to /var/www/ispconfig_html
cause I had old web pages in the orig directory. I think this was where my problem started.

Anyways, I have now changed my commonhttpd.conf and httpd2.conf files to reflect the directory change.

I ran httpd -t and got the same sytax error in Vhosts_ispconfig.conf file. It traces back to the AllowOverride configuration setting in the Apache conf files.

This is my httpd2.conf

Code:

###
### webapps configuration section
###

# Web applications should be activated _after_ apache has been
# configured properly.
Include /etc/httpd/webapps.d/*.conf

<directory /var/www/ispconfig_html/sharedip>
    Options +Includes -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

###############ispconfig_log###############
LogFormat "%v||||%b||||%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined_ispconfig
CustomLog "|/root/ispconfig/cronolog --symlink=/var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log /var/log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log_%Y_%m

<directory /var/www/ispconfig_html/*/web>
    Options +Includes -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

<directory /var/www/ispconfig_html/*/user/*/web>
    Options +Includes -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

<directory /var/www/ispconfig_html/*/cgi-bin>
    Options ExecCGI -Indexes
    AllowOverride None
    AllowOverride Indexes AuthConfig Limit FileInfo
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <files ~ "^\.ht">
    Deny from all
    </files>
</directory>

Include /etc/httpd/2.0/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf

Hmmm. I see the AllowOverride directives, should I change anything here? Is this default?

 

BTW, to confirm I have php installed. I made a phpinfo() file. It works great with the only Virtual Host I have installed.

 

This is what I found at PHP.net
http://us3.php.net/configuration.changes

Now I getting really confused. Does anyone else have this problem?

 

I think I do. here's an exerpt of my phpinfo().

 

Looks ok, but was mod_php4 loaded at the time when you got the warning in the ISPConfig log?

 

Yes. But I did some more checking and reinstalled mod_php just incase and this is what I found out.

Firstly, I am running ...
Mandrake 10.2 (Mandrivia 2005)
Apache 2.0.53
mod_php 4.3.10

From what I have read in the man httpd file it suggests I use command

Code:

# apachectl configtest
<or>
# apachectl configtest_vhosts 

instead of

Code:

# httpd -t

BTW my httpd2 runs fine. and restarts ok with apachectl restart.
Now when I do use apachectl configtest it get this...

Code:

[root@webenergy /]# apachectl configtest_vhosts
Checking configuration sanity for Apache 2.0:                   [  OK  ]
[root@webenergy /]# apachectl configtest
Checking configuration sanity for Apache 2.0:                   [  OK  ]

This is very interesting. I think the httpd or httpd2 has a problem checking Apache2 version syntax with mod_php... I dunno, just guessing.

So here's my question. How is ISPConfig gonna use apachectl configtest instead of httpd -t?

 

Should I go ahead and edit these lines in
/root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php

Code:

[root@webenergy ispconfig]# grep -Rn 'httpd -t' *
scripts/lib/config.lib.php:1800:  $httpd_syntax_check = $mod->log->caselog("httpd -t &> /dev/null", $this->FILE, __LINE__);
scripts/lib/config.lib.php:2319:  $ret_val = $mod->log->caselog("httpd -t  &> /dev/null", $this->FILE, __LINE__);
scripts/lib/config.lib.php:2341:  $ret_val = $mod->log->caselog("httpd -t  &> /dev/null", $this->FILE, __LINE__);

 

too late... couldn't wait.

Code:

# cd /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib
# cp config.lib.php config.lib.php.orig
# replace 'httpd -t' 'apachectl configtest' -- config.lib.php
config.lib.php converted

Works like a charm... Thanks again for all your help everyone... I really miss having someone to bounce ideas off of. BTW, did I tell you I love ISPConfig?!!

Its very well done.

 

You're right... it points to httpd2 which is binary file in the /usr/sbin dir.

Except you need to use '-t' (config test) arg on httpd2 to test the conf files in apache. httpd2 does not allow the argument 'configtest' like apachectl in Mandrake.

Maybe I should change the httpd2 bin to a script which passes tharguments to apachectl. What do you think?

 

Yes httpd2 -t works fine on my system. But I still get the Syntax Error

Code:

Invalid command 'php_admin_flag', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

The only way to bypass using httpd2 is to use 'apachectl configtest'. It also checks the conf files for httpd but it passes sucessfully over the php_admin_flag statement.