I set up a LAMP to serve as Virtual Host for four different sites. I got the first one working, and then started proceeding to add the others. When I added the .conf files, I tried to restart apache, like so:

service apache2 restart

...and I received this:

/usr/sbin/apache2ctl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf:
FastCgiIpcDir /var/lib/apache2/fastcgi: access for server (uid 1000, gid 1000) f ailed: write not allowed
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
...fail!

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

- A syntax error and a write error? What does the Apache log say?
- Does this happen for sites 2, 3 and 4? Have you tried them each separately (none of the other three running)?
- What is on line 4 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/fastcgi.conf? Is it *identical* for all four config files?


MSJ

Did you run the "service" command as root? It looks like you're doing it as a normal user (uid 1000).

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Stephen
(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

I actually didn't get as far as transferring the files over, was just setting it up (for the first time), so I was trying to get the Apache configured first. I was restarting apache because I had just run the "a2ensite" command on all the conf files and was restarting.

Wow, I forgot to run it as sudo. Ok, this time I ran as sudo, and received this:

* Restarting web server apache2 Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/example_user/public/example.com/public] does not exist
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 96.126.122.61 for ServerName
... waiting Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/example_user/public/example.com/public] does not exist
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 96.126.122.61 for ServerName
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
[fail]

So fix the problem:

"DocumentRoot [/home/example_user/public/example.com/public] does not exist"

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Stephen

(Linux user since kernel version 0.11)

Thank you! I didn't even parse that correctly. Sorry, newbie error - found it, and was able to restart!

I appreciate all the help...

Chris