Re: Starting Apache Webserver in bookworm

[Joe <joe@jretrading.com>]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 10:03:58 +0200
Christoph Pleger <Christoph.Pleger@cs.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> after upgrading a computer from Debian 11 to Debian 12, I am unable to
> start apache2 by systemd. Even configuring the apache2 package hangs
> forever, if I do not kill the related processes and edit
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/apache2.postinst, commenting out all lines where
> apache2 is tried to be started.
> 
> Trying to explicitly start apache2 for the CLI:
> 
> 1. systemctl start apache2
> 
> hangs
> 
> 2. cp /etc/init.d/apache2 /root
>    /root/apache2 start
> 
> hangs
> 
> 3. The only method I found so far that works, from the CLI:
> 
>    . /etc/apache2/envvars
>    export APACHE_STARTED_BY_SYSTEMD=true
>    apache2ctl start
> 
> Any idea?
> 

See if there are any clues in /var/log/apache2/error.log or the
earlier files. You'll need root privileges.

-- 
Joe