On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 4:42 AM Marc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> With the forced upon us 90 day certificate renewal crap, my httpd was down 
> today although I have a 'restart procedure' that verifies a bit for errors 
> with apachectl configtest.
>
> 1.
> what is the point of having a apachectl configtest, when a restart can still 
> fail? It can't be to difficult to include cert checks here, can it? This is 
> now becoming a significant part.

The bar is useful, not perfect.  configtest checks for _syntax_ validity.

> 2.
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
> AH00016: Configuration Failed
>
> This is useless, why not list config line or cert name?

This error means post-configuration failed. This is when the collected
config is acted upon, which is not really within line-by-line mode.
Normally there's a preceding error message with more details, maybe in
a vhost-specific error log?

-- 
Eric Covener
[email protected]

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