I don’t know how, but I think I have accidentally managed to delete the Default Server for Apache on my VPS. This is a problem as Apache now will not start.
The exact error I get is:
Starting web server: apache2apache2: Syntax error on line 230 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default: No such file or directory
Action 'start' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.
failed!
I can’t actually see anything recent in the error log (nothing later than Friday 17th).
How would I go about recreating the Default Virtual Server/make Apache work again?
And if I look in sites-enabled, there are two files. One is the one Virtual Server I currently have running. The other is 000-default. However, I get the error “No such file” if I try and open it via SFTP.
Asking ls -l suggests that it is pointing to …/sites-available/default which does not exist.
Okay… everything in sites-enabled is a link to sites-available (as you’re seeing).
So what probably happened is the file it links to in sites-available was removed.
In most cases, you don’t need that default file – that’s something that comes with Debian/Ubuntu by default, it’s not something that Virtualmin sets up.
I might suggest simply removing 000-default, which should solve the problem you’re seeing.
Thanks very much for your help. I wasn’t sure if the default server was something I did need. I’ve deleted that link, and it now functions
Slightly similar question: Is there a way to have Apache server more than one domain from the same Virtual server (eg www.domain.com and domain.com), but then have a different response for a wildcard (ie *.domain.com)?
Sure, you can add as many domains to Apache as you like. The only reason you’d need an additional IP address is if one of the domains requires an SSL certificate – you can only have one SSL cert per IP address.
Thanks for your help. So if I want more than one domain to point to the same virtual server, how would I go about doing that? (ie domain.com and anodomain.com both point to the same page)
