Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details - apache

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This is due to non-existance of "/var/www/html" directory. run mkdir "/var/www/html" , hope it will solved.
I have installed a fresh copy of Centos 7. Then I restarted Apache but the Apache failed to start. I have 3 days stucked in this issue. Even the support can not figure out the error.
sudo service httpd start
Failed to start apache :
Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2016-05-09 16:08:02 BST; 59s ago
Docs: man:httpd(8)
man:apachectl(8)
Main PID: 5710 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
May 09 16:08:02 mike079.startdedicated.de systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
May 09 16:08:02 mike079.startdedicated.de httpd[5710]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 85.25.12.20:80
May 09 16:08:02 startdedicated.de httpd[5710]: no listening sockets available, shutting down
May 09 16:08:02 startdedicated.de httpd[5710]: AH00015: Unable to open logs
May 09 16:08:02 startdedicated.de systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
May 09 16:08:02.startdedicated.de kill[5712]: kill: cannot find process ""
May 09 16:08:02 .startdedicated.de systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
May 09 16:08:02startdedicated.de systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
May 09 16:08:02 startdedicated.de systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
May 09 16:08:02 mike: httpd.service failed.

Answer 1

I got the same error because of a simple typo in vhost.conf.
Remember to make sure you don't have any errors in the config files.
apachectl configtest

Answer 2

From your output:
no listening sockets available, shutting down
what basically means, that any port in which one apache is going to be listening is already being used by another application.
netstat -punta | grep LISTEN
Will give you a list of all the ports being used and the information needed to recognize which process is so you can kill stop or do whatever you want to do with it.
After doing a nmap of your ip I can see that
80/tcp open http
so I guess you sorted it out.

Answer 3

In my case I got the error simply because I had changed the Listen 80 to listen 443 in the file
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Since I had installed mod_ssl using the yum commands
yum -y install mod_ssl
there was a duplicate listen 443 directive in the file ssl.conf created during mod_ssl installation.
You can verify this if you have duplicate listen 80 or 443 by running the below command in linux centos (My linux)
grep '443' /etc/httpd/conf.d/*
below is sample output
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:Listen 443 https
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:<VirtualHost _default_:443>
/etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:#ServerName www.example.com:443
Simply reverting the listen 443 in httd.conf to listen 80 fixed my issue.

Answer 4

on command line type journalctl -xe and the results will be
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from name_bind access on the tcp_socket port 83 or 80
This means that the SELinux is running on your machine and you need to disable it. then edit the configuration file by type the following
nano /etc/selinux/config
Then find the line SELINUX=enforce and change to SELINUX=disabled
Then type the following and run the command to start httpd
setenforce 0
Lastly start a server
systemctl start httpd

Answer 5

Allow Apache Through the Firewall
Allow the default HTTP and HTTPS port, ports 80 and 443, through firewalld:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
And reload the firewall:
sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Answer 6

Some other service may be using port 80: try to stop the other services: HTTPD, SSL, NGINX, PHP, with the command sudo systemctl stop and then use the command sudo systemctl start httpd

Answer 7

For me the issue was the following:
[Sat Sep 10 00:43:20.999998 2022] [auth_digest:error] [pid 123456] (2)No such file or directory: AH01762: Failed to create shared memory segment on file /run/httpd/authdigest_shm.128124
[Sat Sep 10 00:43:20.999999 2022] [auth_digest:error] [pid 123456] (2)No such file or directory: AH01760: failed to initialize shm - all nonce-count checking and one-time noncesdisabled
I have just tailed the error logs to get those two line above:
*ADMINSHELL* :/var/opt/custom_path/logs/httpd # tail error_log
So the problem was that this folder was missing: /run/httpd/
Solution:
mkdir /run/httpd
chown root:httpd /run/httpd
chmod 0710 /run/httpd
After this is done. You will be able to restart the service:
systemctl restart httpd.service
Double check:
systemctl status httpd.service

Answer 8

The error could be anywhere, configs, libraries or the binaries. Error in the control process is a general error thrown by the system when its not able to start/restart the service. In my case one of libraries linked to the exe in the .service file has a problem. Fixing that library solved the problem.

Answer 9

try this cmd to know the missing config or error in the file configuration
$ apachectl configtest

Answer 10

I had almost the same error, and I found the error on vhost.conf file, which is located on /etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf.
If you were configuring the virtual host, I suggest you look at the following file and find if you have any errors there.
/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf

Answer 11

For me also the same error happens after adding dummy SSL
in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf file it's created a line like,
SLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
I changed it from SLCertificateFile to SSLCertificateFile
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt
And after apache restart it started working fine.

Answer 12

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.YOURDOMAIN.COM
ServerAlias YOURDOMAIN.COM
DocumentRoot /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.COM/public_html
ErrorLog /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.COM/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.COM/requests.log combined
DocumentRoot /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.COM/public_html
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.COM/public_html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>