Added user - apache won't restart

[blanezx3]

Hello

The past few times I've added a user to our server apache hasn't restarted. I traced the problem to ips.conf and httpd.conf being overwritten, so I replaced them from backups.

[root@serv1 conf]# httpd start
Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf:
</VirtualHost> without matching <VirtualHost> section
[root@serv1 conf]# cp /home/blane/httpconfs/httpd.conf .
cp: overwrite `./httpd.conf'? y
[root@serv1 conf]# cp /home/blane/httpconfs/ips.conf .
cp: overwrite `./ips.conf'? y
[root@serv1 conf]# httpd start

and then it works.

The only thing in the error log that is fishy is:

[root@serv1 conf]# tail -20 /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Thu May  3 14:52:15 2007] [error] Cannot remove module mod_perl.c: not found in module list
[Thu May  3 14:52:15 2007] [error] Cannot remove module mod_ssl.c: not found in module list

I uncommented the mod_ssl entry in httpd.conf, but that didn't help either.

The permissions seem to be correct -

[root@serv1 conf]# ls -al ips.conf httpd.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 25947 May  3 14:57 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12138 May  3 14:57 ips.conf

Why is ips.conf being re-written and not including the first 20-30 lines? I can't figure it out I followed the steps to rebuild, which were

cd /usr/local/directadmin/customapache
./build clean
rm -f configure.*
./build update
./build all

Anyone have a clue? I'm stumped.

Thanks in advance

 

[blanezx3]

Anyone? The problem doesn't want to go away.

Can someone at least tell me if the permissions are correct for the files listed in the above post?

 

[smtalk]

Try this:

cd /usr/local/directadmin
wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/custombuild/beta/custombuild.tar.gz
tar xvzf custombuild.tar.gz
cd custombuild
perl -pi -e 's/2.2/1.3/' build
./build update_data
./build all d

 

[blanezx3]

Unfortunately the same thing is happening.

 

[smtalk]

It couldn't happen, because your httpd.conf is rewritten now.

 

[blanezx3]

It did happen. Gave the same error -

[root@serv1 conf]# httpd start
Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf:
</VirtualHost> without matching <VirtualHost> section

I copied a backup ips.conf to /etc/httpd/conf/ and it works, but I'd like to not have to do that everytime a user is added. It's being re-written incorrectly somehow and I can't figure it out.

Any other suggestions?

 

[blanezx3]

Just so I'm being clear (not sure if i was before), when I add a user /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf gets re-written. When it is re-written and apache tries to start, it fails with the error:

Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf:
</VirtualHost> without matching <VirtualHost> section

Which script modifies ips.conf when the user is added? Is there an error log for the useradd in DA?

 

[nobaloney]

DirectAdmin doesn't use scripts; it's a C++ program.

What do the first five lines of your /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf file look like after the user is added? Mine looks like:

# Auto generated apache config file by DirectAdmin version 1.29.4
# Modifying this file is not recommended as any changes you make will be
# overwritten when you add/remove ip's through DirectAdmin.

LogFormat "%b \"%r\"" homedir

What do you get as the output ofls -al /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf?

What version of DirectAdmin are you using?

DirectAdmin logs what it does at /var/log/directadmin/. The error log is at /var/log/directadmin/error.log.

Jeff

 

[blanezx3]

[root@serv1 ~]# ls -al /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12138 May 4 12:18 /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf

We're using v1.28.0


The first 5 lines of ips.conf now look like

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost IP.add.re.ss:443>
#       SSLEngine on
#       SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt

after adding a user. Once I replace it with the backup it's fine and will start correctly.

 

[nobaloney]

Now we're getting somewhere. Obviously DA is copying something incorrectly. I can't figure out where. Have you contacted them for support?

Jeff

 

[blanezx3]

Not yet. I was hoping to find the answers here before escalating the situation. I guess I'll do that now.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

FYI, my reply was to update DA. Not quite sure what the initial problem was.. we didn't use templates with 1.28.0 .. possibly a corrupted binary, or OS mismatch. If you have any problems after upgrading to 1.29.6, let us know.

John

 

[blanezx3]

Can someone tell me the correct permissions of httpd.conf and ips.conf?

Right now I have:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root

For all .conf files in /etc/httpd/conf

 

[blanezx3]

Nevermind. John with DA support has helped me fix these problems.

Many kudos to John for helping me get this resolved!

 

[blanezx3]

Just to get the info out there in search engines.


I did rebuild DA per John's instructions. I then copied an old httpd.conf and ips.conf over to /etc/httpd/conf/ and uncommented the SSL entries. From there we realized that DA was calling /etc/httpd/conf/extra/directadmin-vhosts.conf instead of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. To fix that, John said to remove all "user" entries in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and to use an include statement.

So I deleted everything in httpd.conf that had, for example:

Include /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/testuser/httpd.conf

and added

Include /etc/httpd/conf/extra/directadmin-vhosts.conf

This last line has all of your user links and calls the appropriate file for the person.

HTH future people!