Questions tagged [apache2]
Use this tag for question related to configuring and using Apache on Ubuntu or one of Ubuntu's official derivatives.
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Apache error "Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name"
When I restart my Apache server using the command
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
I get the following error:
Restarting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully ...
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How do you restart Apache?
I switched from SLES to Ubuntu and now I want to restart my local server.
In SLES I used:
rcapache2 restart
but this seems not to work in Ubuntu.
How do I restart Apache?
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Where are the Apache and PHP log files?
I've installed Apache, PHP, and MySQL on Ubuntu 10.10 desktop edition, and it's working fine.
Except I have no clue where to look for Apache or PHP log files.
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How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot?
How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot? I can't seem to find an option that disables the automatic start-up when I turn on the machine.
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Find the correct php.ini file
I am currently trying to locate the correct php.ini file to edit it and restart apache so the changes will take place and I'm stumped.
I have found three different php.ini files (no idea why there ...
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Permanently removing apache2
It seems a simple apt-get remove apache2 does not completely remove apache2 as I can still see it on one of the processes when running top. How does one remove apache2 completely on his ubuntu server?
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How can I downgrade from PHP 7 to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]
I am trying to revert my PHP version to 5.6 from 7 and though I removed PHP 7 and then installed PHP 5.6 I still seem to be running version 7.
Is there a simple method for moving through PHP versions ...
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How to enable mod_rewrite in Apache?
I just installed the LAMP stack on my Ubuntu system.
The redirection is not working for me. I don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help me?
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How can I access Apache (on VirtualBox guest) from host?
I installed Apache on an Ubuntu VM. When I go into the guest and load up Firefox I can see that Apache is working fine when I browse to localhost.
I would like to access this same page through the ...
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Apache not able to restart
Trying to restart apache from terminal using the following command:
sudo service apache2 restart
When executing that command, I'm getting below error:
Job for apache2.service failed. See "...
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Apache: access denied because search permissions are missing
I know this question is asked a lot, but the solutions I saw didn't work for me.
I only have one virtual host enabled, and I'm trying to enable access to a folder that's not under the document root
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Can't find httpd.conf
I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a laptop and installed apache 2 (version 2.4.7) and PHP 5.
I cannot find httpd.conf. I need to change it because when I try to open a .php page I see a download box.
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How to solve the phpmyadmin not found issue after upgrading php and apache?
Recently I have install the PHP, Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, python in my Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.3 LTS to use it as a LAMP server. The commands I used to install these are given below:
1: sudo passwd
2: ...
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How can I chmod 777 all subfolders of /var/www?
I’m running a webserver and FTP server, wherein /var/www is bound to /home/user/www.
I set both directories to chmod 777 (which is fine since it’s for testing only).
I can upload files into /home/...
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how to find out the apache version installed in ubuntu?
how to find out the Apache server version installed in Ubuntu 14.04?
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Why shouldn't /var/www have chmod 777
When developing a page on a localhost, I sometimes get a "Permission denied" error which I can solve by running chmod -R 777 /var/www. However, people are telling me that this is a bad idea for ...
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Apache fails to start, Address already in use (but not really)
I'm trying to set up a VM running Ubuntu 12.04. I have two virtual hosts configured using port 80, but Apache will not start.
I get this error:
(98) Address already in use: make_sock: could ...
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How to have two versions of PHP installed and switch easily between them?
I want to have both PHP 5.2.17 and PHP 5.3.5 installed on my Ubuntu machine and switch as per my necessity. How can I achieve this?
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Problem with restarting Apache 2 [duplicate]
I'm trying to restart Apache 2:
sudo service apache2 restart
But get the below error:
* Restarting web server apache2
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified ...
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Upgrade to 16.04. php7 not working in browser
I just upgraded from 14.10 to 16.04 and am not sure how to configure PHP 7 in apache. I did modify the php7.0.conf file to uncomment that last lines, restarted apache2 and no change.
Do I need to ...
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PHP script not executing on Apache server
I have just reinstalled Apache and PHP5 but when I visit my doc root it just downloads a "download" file. And when I try documentroot/index.php it just downloads the PHP file.
I have PHP installed ...
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htpasswd executable is missing
I'm running 13.10. Clean install. Ran:
sudo apt-get install apache2
I would expect that I would have htpasswd in the /usr/sbin directory along with the apache2 executable. I don't.
I can ...
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Permissions problems with /var/www/html and my own home directory for a website document root
I'm trying to not give 777 permission in my /var/www/html folder, but I want to edit my files without sudo. So I thought to create a symlink of a folder in my home directory within /var/www/html. I ...
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Is there any difference between apache2 and httpd?
Today I was installing phpmyadmin on Ubuntu 12.04 and after a while a dialogue popped up stating what server I want to use; apache2 or httpd
Are these, two different kinds of server?
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Install mod_proxy to get ProxyPass to work
I've been trying to follow these instructions, so that I could get the Citadel mail server to work alongside Apache, but I get an error when I try to restart Apache:
Invalid command 'ProxyPass', ......
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Is this a correct way to enable htaccess in Apache 2.4.7
In almost every solution of "How to activate htaccess", they say that the /etc/apache2/sites-available/default file needs to be edited. But there isn't such file in Apache 2.4.7
I read somewhere ...
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E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing? [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 13.10 on evaluation board and my internet is not working. Also i need to install softwares and apt-get install is also not working.
Terminal says : E: Unable to fetch some archives,...
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Where is apache web root directory on Ubuntu? [duplicate]
On Ubuntu Trusty, which is the apache root directory for web pages?
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Where to place my local website starting with the 2.4.7 version of apache2?
I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04, then I installed lamp-server and placed my webpages in /var/www directory, but when I opened localhost in the browser there was nothing.
I think that happened ...
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How to make Apache run as current user
I think for a development machine, its more convenient to run Apache as the current user to simplify permissions problem? How do I do that? I think its suexec but how do I configure it in Ubuntu+...
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Can't install php5 on Ubuntu 16.04
so I've recently installed my first Ubuntu, to be precise, a daily build of 16.04, on my new laptop since the hardware was to new for 15.10. Now I'm in the process of setting it up and I want to ...
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setting up subdomain on ubuntu server
I have a server at mysite.no-ip.org. Everything is working fine and I have a blog and owncloud that I access writing mysite.no-ip.org/blog and mysite.no-ip.org/owncloud.
Now, I want to create ...
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Correct permissions for /var/www and wordpress
I have set up a LAMP server and I have access via SSH and to the "it works" page from a web browser from inside my network (via ip address) and from outside using dyndns.
We have some Wordpress ...
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Grant a user permissions on www-data owned /var/www
I have a simple web server setup for some websites, with a layout something like:
site1: /var/www/site1/public_html/
site2: /var/www/site2/public_html/
I have previously used the root user to ...
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How to make a directory permanently writable?
I am using LAMP stack for development and I have a problem with making /var/www permanently writable. I use this command:
sudo chmod -R a+rwX /var/www
This works, but after putting a web app and ...
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default permissions for /var/www
I was trying to open a file and write to it with PHP at /var/wwwfolder
but it wasn't working so I did
sudo chmod 777 /var/www
now I want to set the permissions for /var/www to the default.
what are ...
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Change Apache document root folder to secondary hard drive
I installed the ubuntu 12.04 server edition for my server pc . i had installed lamp server. i need to change the var/www location to my secondary hard disk location. i was configured so many time to ...
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The requested URL /phpmyadmin was not found on this server
When I was restarting the apche2, I was getting this message..
sudo service apache2 restart
* Restarting web server apache2 ...
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How to keep apache and mysql from starting automatically
Is there a way to make apache and mysql not run automatically on startup?
Currently, whenever I boot my machine, they start automatically and run in the background.
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
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permission denied for root@localhost for ssh connection
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and LAMP on that. Then, I wanted to configure my server, so tried out This tutorial.
When I give the command:
ssh root@localhost
I get : Permission denied, please try ...
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How can I reinstall Apache HTTPD after deleting some of the configuration files?
I recently was messing around with my Apache config and wanted to reinstall so I could start from fresh. I followed some forum posts about reinstalling the apache2 package and this ended up deleting ...
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How can I watch the current connections on my Apache webserver?
I am hosting quite a lot of virtual hosts using Apache in a basic LAMP set up with the help of Webmin/Virtualmin. I am looking for a top-like tool in which I can monitor current connections. The ...
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Apache can't access folders in my home directory
I have changed the configuration of Apache to point towards a folder in my home directory:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /home/dbugger/html
<...
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Why do I still see an Apache site on Nginx?
I installed nginx then I installed apache2, after a while I removed apache2. After a couple of weeks I noticed something strange when I accessed http://localhost: nginx handles the request but when I ...
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How do you install mod_wsgi?
I ran the following commands
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi
sudo a2enmod mod-wsgi
I keep getting this extremely frustrating message
ERROR: Module mod-wsgi does not exist!
Please help.
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Upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 - Apache not able to start
I updated to Ubuntu 13.10 (from Ubuntu 13.04) last weekend, and now Apache is not being able to start. It was working perfectly well until the upgraded, and I haven't changed anything myself.
When I ...
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Ubuntu Apache2 DefaultRuntimeDir must be a valid directory, absolute or relative to ServerRoot
I have a web server running Ubuntu 17.04 that I am attempting to set up with Apache. Everything ran great until I decided to host two websites on a single machine through virtualHosts. Now apache ...
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How to configure Apache to run PHP as FastCGI on Ubuntu 12.04 via terminal?
I'm relatively new to the world of unix command line web server management/administration.
Many hosts with control panel administration options allow you to change how PHP is run with a simple option....
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how to stop apache2, mysql from starting automatically as computer starts?
My os is 11.04.
I have apache2 & mysql installed.
How to stop apache2, mysql from starting automatically as computer starts?
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Why is my Apache not working after upgrading to Ubuntu 14.04?
[aman@aman-Inspiron-1440:~$ apache2
[Mon Apr 21 17:36:38.019213 2014] [core:warn] [pid 4134] AH00111: Config variable ${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} is not defined
[Mon Apr 21 17:36:38.019345 2014] [core:warn] [...
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