<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello, </div>Have you checked that you actually have closing </Directory> in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf ? </div>This looks like pure Apache config syntax error. </div>Best regards. </div>Sergei. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 5 April 2017 at 13:55, Gary Lock <<a href="mailto:gary@postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">gary@postiekiddo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" lang="EN-AU"><div class="m_2590083258612430768WordSection1">Hi All Please help!Failed to start apache :Job for httpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status httpd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. The above is the apache error I am getting <pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">> journalctl -xn</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Logs begin at Mon 2017-03-06 14:06:17 EST, end at Wed 2017-04-05 11:52:15 EST. --</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:50:37 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> postfix/smtpd[20916]: lost connection after CONNECT from unknown[190.249.188.184]</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:50:37 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> postfix/smtpd[20916]: disconnect from unknown[190.249.188.184]</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Stopped The Apache HTTP Server.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has finished shutting down</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Defined-By: systemd</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a></pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- </pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Unit httpd.service has finished shutting down.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun with start-up</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Defined-By: systemd</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a></pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- </pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Unit httpd.service has begun starting up.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> httpd[21025]: httpd: Syntax error on line 350 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 148 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf: /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:150: <Directory> was not closed.\n/etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:148: <Directory> was not closed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> httpd[21027]: httpd: Syntax error on line 350 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 148 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf: /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:150: <Directory> was not closed.\n/etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:148: <Directory> was not closed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Defined-By: systemd</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Support: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a></pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- </pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- Unit httpd.service has failed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- </pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">-- The result is failed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:52:15 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.</pre>Results of the Service <pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled)</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2017-04-05 11:53:16 EST; 18s ago</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> Process: 21056 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful-stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> Process: 21055 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> Status: "Total requests: 1; Current requests/sec: 0; Current traffic: 0 B/sec"</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke"> </pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> httpd[21055]: httpd: Syntax error on line 350 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 148 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf: /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:150: <Directory> was not closed.\n/etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:148: <Directory> was not closed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> httpd[21056]: httpd: Syntax error on line 350 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 148 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf: /etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:150: <Directory> was not closed.\n/etc/httpd/conf.d/system-config-httpd.conf:148: <Directory> was not closed.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.</pre><pre style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:18.0pt;background:whitesmoke">Apr 05 11:53:16 <a href="http://postiekiddo.com" target="_blank">postiekiddo.com</a> systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.</pre> </div></div> _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>