I have a server that's running Ubuntu 16.04. and apparently Easy Hosting Control Panel keeps on creating multiple back-ups like 50 times a day which fills the 50 gb disk space and it's causing the server to crash.
The backup is creating multiple directories named Apache2.backupbyehcp inside /etc directory.
I've tried deleting the backups one by one and after a day there it is again.
I want to disable or limit the backups created.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Here's a screen shot of the backup directories that are being created:
This is caused by:
Ehcp trying to recover webserver config, each time it detects that the webserver config is broken or webserver not responding.
This may result in such unexpected/unwanted behaviour.
What to do:
1st, check the problem in webserver configs, like, tail -f /var/log/ehcp.log
so that you can understand what is going wrong.
This is sometime caused by incorrect webserver custom configurations by admin or reseller. You may disable custom webserver configs via ehcp gui-> options.
(I strongly suggest finding the cause of this.)
If everything regarding the webserver is okay, but you just need to disable this backup,
open install_lib.php in ehcp dir, search for backupbyehcp and disable that line.
Hope this helps.
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I'm facing an apparently common issue: I can't manage to login in a recently installed Apache Tomcat 8.
The Tomcat installation is part of a large system comprised of a database and other apps and it's not the first time I've installed it just as it isn't the first time I faced this problem. Being so, I did all the steps that helped me fix the problem the other times based on countless pages I found on the web and here on SO about this problem:
Accessed the user XML file and gave all permissions, especially manager-gui, to my created login with no empty spaces between commas
Changes in the XML file were proceeded by closing it in Notepad++ to avoid app locking the file
Changes in the user XML file were preceded by shutting down the service in Windows Services and turning it up again after changes were made
Login and password were set and changed multiple times to be sure it wasn't any kind of mistyped information
The access port in server.xml was changed to more than one different option to be sure there wasn't any port conflict with another app (unlikely since the Windows Server running the app is practically clean)
The read permissions of the user XML file were checked and are in place.
And of course, I reinstalled it at least once.
And maybe more troubleshooting steps I can't remember right now. And none of this worked.
So I'm asking: which other steps could I do to try to access the Tomcat Manager (localhost:port/manager) from a web browser (Chrome/Firefox) from within the same machine it is installed? (no NetBeans involved) I can't think of any other solution.
Well I finally managed to access the manager after appealing to the last resort I had forgot to do: copy and paste of the entire conf folder from a Tomcat which was working to the one having the problem and even so it didn't work by itself, since I still had to change the port from 8080 to 8088 for it to finally work. It seems, therefore, it was a "binary problem": the port wasn't adequate plus differneces in configuration. Comparing the files, I managed to find small differences for example in the web.xml files:
*Current, working*
<mime-mapping>
<extension>woff</extension>
<mime-type>application/x-font-woff</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
*Previously, not working*
<mime-mapping>
<extension>woff</extension>
<mime-type>font/woff</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
<mime-mapping>
<extension>woff2</extension>
<mime-type>font/woff2</mime-type>
</mime-mapping>
I can't understand why changes such as this one made any difference, but at least it's working. Thanks for the help.
We have taken the Images of the mount points from one existing IBM HTTP Server v8.5 and copied it to another Server. When we tried to start the server using ./apachectl start am not getting any error messages but no I couldn't find any httpd instance running.
When I tried to stop the server I got "httpd (pid 19422?) not running" message.
Changes have been made in httpd.conf by changing the server name.
Please let me know if this Image copying is possible?
If yes, please let me know where else should I have to make the changes?
As long as you keep the path the same, and copy a stopped server, it should be fine.
If you change path, obviously you'll have to change all references to that path in the installation root.
If the server was running, when you copied it, you'll need to zap the PidFile (logs/httpd.pid by default). Usually this is recovered automatically.
Solved this issue, by granting the access to the particular file. It was due to different user who started the server on the parent server from where the Application was cloned.
I am using Apache httpd on localhost to connect to the project I'm working on, I have been deleting web cache when website is showing the old project instead of the new one. However recently the project is stuck on an outdated version and restarting/clearing cookies won't work with the user I'm assigned.
I tried using another user with my project and it works just fine. I recently did use svn revert which may have caused my user to get stuck with old project, but I'm not sure that's the problem.
Commands I use to start and stop:
sudo service httpd start
sudo service httpd stop
Any advice or tips are greatly appreciated.
Update: I managed to get the page to update the html, however my JavaScript won't load which I suspect is due to another user being stored and thus not accessing the database I use which leads to nothing being generated.
(Posted on behalf of the OP).
I got everything to "work" again by accident, I made some edits to PHP and my PHP crashed because of a syntax error. When I fixed it back to original stage it was working again. It most likely is related to a user the previous owner created that caused the problem.
Just clear Temporary files
In windows CTRL+R and type %temp% and delete all the files it will help to you
I have an application with some cacheing backend and I want to clear the cacheing whenever the webserver is been restarted.
Is there a apache configuration directive or any other way to execute a shell script upon webserver (re)start?
Thanks,
Phil
Adding some more information, as asked by some answers already:
Base system is ofc linux based, in this exact situation: CentOs
Modifying the startup script is unfortunately no option as pointed out by one of the comments already, due to it beeing not configuration file within the respective RPM packages and therefor beeing replaced by updates. Also I think modifying the startup script would be a bad thing in general
I see, that actually linking both "restarting the webserver" and "clearing my app cache" is not exactly what should be tied together. I will consider other alternatives
My situation is as follows: I can define how the virtual host config looks like, but I can not define how the rest of the servers configuration looks like.
The application is actually PHP based (and runs on the symfony framework). Symfony pre-compiles alot of stuff into dynamic php files from what it finds in the static configuration files. We deploy our apps via RPM and after deployment, an webserver restart is actually initiated already, so I thought it might make sense to tie the cache-cleanup to it. But I think after getting all your feedback, it looks like it is better to put the cache cleanup process into the installation process itself.
You haven't provided a lot of detail here, so it's hard to give a concrete answer, but I would suggest that your best option is to write a script which handles restarting apache, and clearing your cache. It would look something like this:
#!/bin/sh
# restart apache
/etc/init.d/httpd graceful
# whatever needs to be done to clear cache
rm -rf /my/cache/dir
Ramy suggests modifying the system startup script for Apache -- this is a bad idea! If and when you update Apache on your server, there is a good chance that your change will be lost.
Dirk suggests that what you are trying to do is probably misguided, and I think he's right. You haven't told us what platform you are running, but I can think of few situations where restarting your webserver and clearing a cache actually need to happen together.
You can modify Startup script for the Apache Web Server in /etc/init.d/httpd and write your own syntax inside it.
chattr +i /etc/init.d/httpd
If you have (root) access to the server you could do this by shell scripts but I would consider if it is the best way of cache management to rely on apache restarts.
I run a django application over apache with mod_wsgi, using WAMP.
A certain URL allows me to stream the content of image files, the paths of which are stored in database.
The files can be located whether on local machine or under network drive (\\my\network\folder).
With the development server (manage.py runserver), I have no trouble at all reading and streaming the files.
With WAMP, and with network drive files, I get a IOError : obviously because the httpd instance does not have read permission on said drive.
In the task manager, I see that httpd.exe is run by SYSTEM. I would like to tell WAMP to run the server as [myself] as I have read and write permissions on the shared folder. (eventually, the production server should be run by a 'www-admin' user having the permissions)
Mapping the network shared folder on a drive letter (Z: for instance) does not solve this at all.
The User/Group directives in httpd.conf do not seem to have any kind of influence on Apache's behaviour.
I've also regedited : I tried to duplicate the HKLM\[...]\wampapache registry key under HK_CURRENT_USER\ and rename the original key, but then the new key does not seem to be found when I cmd this
> httpd.exe -n wampapache -k start
or when I run WAMP.
I've run out of ideas :)
Has anybody ever had the same issue?
Win+R, services.msc
edit wampapache and wampmysqld to log on as some user.
the tray icon is a convenient front end to "net start wampapache" and "net start wampmysqld"
The User/Group directives in httpd.conf do not seem to have any kind of influence on Apache's behaviour.
httpd.exe is started by the root user (this is probably why you see it running under SYSTEM). The user and group lines in httpd.conf determine what user the child processes (that httpd spawns) will run under. These forks are what actually handle page requests, etc. so it is possible that your configuration is already doing what you want it to, it is just unclear from looking at task manager.
You could also try using runas to start WAMP/Apache, though your mileage may vary.
I've just found that executing httpd.exe myself works for me... I just loose all the funky WAMP tray icon, and the "restart apache" menu item, really handy whenever I update my application code...
I'll have to make do with this for the moment...