Apache2 service won't start in Ubuntu 15.10

anonymous picture anonymous · Apr 11, 2016 · Viewed 11.9k times · Source

I have installed apache2 but it's won't start, when i do

sudo service apache2 start

it's give me this problem

Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with    error code. See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

so when i enter this command

 systemctl status apache2.service

it's give me this message

● apache2.service - LSB: Apache2 web server
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/apache2)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since ن 2016-04-11 15:41:07 WEST; min  43s ago
 Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 19644 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/apache2 start (code=exited, status=2)

11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Apache2 web server...
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT apache2[19644]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 64: .: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT apache2[19644]: /etc/init.d/apache2: 76: .: Can't open /etc/apache2/envvars
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Apache2 web server.
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT systemd[1]: apache2.service: Unit entered failed state.
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
11 15:41:07 oussama-UL50VT apache2[19644]: ERROR: APACHE_PID_FILE needs to be defined in /etc/apache2/envvars

Answer

LMS94 picture LMS94 · Apr 11, 2016

It looks like your apache installation has broken... Please try reinstalling apache by running the following commands in the terminal:

sudo apt-get purge apache2
sudo apt-get install apache2