Trust me. it’s the safest way to know you are starting off clean and have no remnants that didn’t upgrade properly, there were a number of deprecations from old to new Apache and they do not upgrade nicely.
And it really does not take that long, it should take you (depending on how many sites) that entire fresh upgrade in under an hour. For me when I had to do it after one upgrade from 14 > 16 I had 18 sites, it took me barely an hour and everything was fresh and working properly, then I moved to Nginx a few months later but that was for other reasons. Tell me about it ….. the things we have to do !!! LOL But just bite the bullet and start fresh, then you know you are fresh and squeaky clean Cheers Mitch From: Purvez <pur...@nexar.free-online.co.uk> <pur...@nexar.free-online.co.uk> Reply: users@httpd.apache.org <users@httpd.apache.org> <users@httpd.apache.org> Date: 18 April 2017 at 5:25:21 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org <users@httpd.apache.org> <users@httpd.apache.org> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Problem with Apache2 after upgrade from Ubuntu14.04 to 16.04 Hi Mitchell Many thanks for your response. I'm coming to the same conclusion as you. Best to cut my losses and rebuild Apache and PHP....but I HATE not knowing what went wrong. So...I'm going to spend some time getting to the bottom of the problem...whilst being pragmatic and building my production server with apache and php again to get back to 'real life'!! Ugh the things we have to do to survive in this game!! LOL. On 18/04/17 12:59, Mitchell Krog Photography wrote: My experience with upgrading from 14.04 to 16.04 is apache does not upgrade well at all, had it happen on several servers already in the past. I would suggest backup your entire etc/apache2 folder or rename it /etc/apache_backup/ Then uninstall apache and purge it, uninstall PHP and purge it and then reinstall both Apache and PHP Then you will get a clean Apache with PHP 7, then move your sites back into /etc/apache2/sites-available/ one at a time, enable them one at a time and test as you go along. Good luck From: Purvez <pur...@nexar.free-online.co.uk> <pur...@nexar.free-online.co.uk> Reply: users@httpd.apache.org <users@httpd.apache.org> <users@httpd.apache.org> Date: 18 April 2017 at 1:35:12 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org <users@httpd.apache.org> <users@httpd.apache.org> Subject: [users@httpd] Problem with Apache2 after upgrade from Ubuntu14.04 to 16.04 Hi Newbie to the forum here so I hope I'm doing this right. If not please would someone guide me. Thx in advance. As the subject line says Apache2 is not working at all / satisfactorily since the Ubuntu upgrade. The details follow: =========================== Here is my full post on askubuntu: http://askubuntu.com/questions/904042/upgrade-to-16-04-lts-has-broken-apache Currently the biggest help I could get would be if someone would decipher what the following output means when I do : systemctl status apache2.service output: =============== *Code:* purvez@127:~$ systemctl status apache2.service ● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d └─apache2-systemd.conf Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2017-04-13 10:01:02 BST; 11s ago Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8) Process: 6997 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/apache2 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 6978 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: no listening sockets available, shutting down Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: AH00015: Unable to open logs Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: Action 'start' failed. Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: The Apache error log may have more information. Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6978]: * Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6997]: * Stopping Apache httpd web server apache2 Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 apache2[6997]: * Apr 13 10:01:02 127.0.1.1purvez-Aspire-5750 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Apache2 web server. purvez@127:~$ The MAIN question is : Is Apache started and functioning or is it inactive (dead)? The last line of the output suggests that it is working but the 5th / 6th line from the top suggests the opposite. The errorlog is blank and the accesslog is blank as well since the day of the upgrade. =========================== Thanks in advance Purvez
