Apache Fails to Start

[KZhan]

Hey Everyone,
I am really really green and I've been following the instructions posted and youtube videos outlining getting apache up and running however I cannot get it up and running. Whenever i try to start with

sudo services apache2 start

i get:

Starting web server: apache2Illegal instruction
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!

I've checked the logs at /var/logs/apache2 and they are both empty. Does anyone have any clue whats wrong? I've also checked netstat -apn and nothing seems to be using port 80 as was suggested on other forums.

[KZhan]

bump?

[joan]

Which distribution are you using?

On Debian Wheezy all you need to do to install Apache is

sudo apt-get install apache2

[KZhan]

Hi joan,

I am indeed using debian wheezy and I have used apt-get install apache2. However I keep on. Getting the error listed in the original post

[joan]

All I can suggest is trying

sudo apt-get purge apache2

followed by

sudo apt-get install apache2

[SirLagz]

Sounds like you used the wrong sources and installed a ARMv7 version of apache rather than the Raspbian version - assuming that you're using Raspbian.

What's in your /etc/apt/sources.list ?

[Choubani.h]

Hi KZhan,

I am facing the same problem as you.
did you find a solution?
can you help please?
in my source.list :
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy contrib main non-free

[Choubani.h]

Is it possible that i installed the debian version, so it wont start in the Raspberry pi?

[Choubani.h]

The problem is solved:
i changed Source.list to :
deb http://archive.rasbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy contrib main non-free rpi

[Blindfreddy]

This error occurred overnight (actually around 3AM last night) on my pi. I can't see any reason, nothing in error log except 'segmentation fault'. Perhaps the binary was somehow corruped. Anyway, I solved it by purging ALL apache2 packages - just purging apache2 did not suffice. So this worked: sudo apt-get purge apache2* followed by sudo apt-get install apache2

Also had to reinstall php apache module: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 to get php to work again.

Hope this helps someone.

[PeterO]

Do you really think it is likely to be the same problem as people were having three years ago ?
PeterO