httpd start fails and shows up error

Question

I installed Apache through yum install httpd in Fedora. When I try to start the service it shows the following error:

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl enable httpd.service 
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/httpd.service' 

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl start httpd.service 
Job for httpd.service failed. See 'systemctl status httpd.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.



[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status httpd.service 
httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server 

   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled) 
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2014-05-17 21:19:25 IST; 1h 13min ago 
  Process: 2622 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful-stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) 

  Process: 2620 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) 


May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Se... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain httpd[2620]: httpd: Syntax error on lin... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain httpd[2622]: httpd: Syntax error on lin... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: httpd.service: control proc... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache ... 
May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered ... 
[root@localhost ~]# 

Solution

Obviously there is a syntax error in Apache's configuration file.

Comments

[Hauke Laging]

You seriously show us that error message but not the output of systemctl status httpd.service...?

[harzyne]

i have edited the post now above.. please check the httpd status i mentioned .. thanku

[Hauke Laging]

It doesn't make much sense to give us the useless May 17 21:19:25 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: part on each line but truncate the real information afterwards...

[harzyne]

i reinstalled apache. but the same error again.. yeah that date part cuts off the actual error log info.i am helpless.. what can i do now?

[Hauke Laging]

@harzyne But this problem should not exist for journalctl -xn. And as systemctl status httpd.service should have told you: systemctl -l status httpd.service gives you the complete lines.

[drs]

@haryzne You can widen the terminal before running systemctl status httpd.service. This will cause the output to be less truncated.

[drs]

@harzyne Uninstalling packages doesn't necessarily remove their config files, so a syntax error would persist across reinstallation.

[Shadur]

Use the command httpd configtest to check the config.