unable to start apache as process/dameon

[Tapas Mishra]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Alan Pope <popey at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 30 March 2011 11:24, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of my machine was shutdown for more than 2 months I today booted
>> it and found Apache did not started as a process.
>> ps out put does not have it.I do not see any thing in Apache log what
>> do I need to check or do?
>
> What happens when you do try to start it?
I do not get any response
> What's in the error log in /var/log.
No I read the complete log and I could not find any thing which shows
any problem.

> What happens when you do a config test?
>
> sudo apache2ctl configtest
Syntax OK

Here is one thing I found which made all things work I found in
/etc/init.d/ directory there are following files apache apache2.1 and
apache2.2 I remember long time back when I had installed it was only
apache but surprisingly I find these two files apache2.1 and apache2.2
also. Now when I did /etc/init.d/apache2.2 start then it started
working but I correctly remember I had not created apache2.1 or
apache2.2 or apache either so what could be the reason for existence
of 2 more files apache2.2 and apache2.1 apart from apache I was trying
to start service apache2 start and it was not working until I went to
/etc/init.d/ directory and noticed the presence of 3 files with name
apache and using one of them had worked.
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Tapas