I have been seeing this question quite a lot recently, so I decided to put together a few steps on what to do in case that your website is not loading.
If you are using Nginx, you could follow the steps here:
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I would recommend following these steps in case that you are having any problems with your Apache server and you are unsure about what the problem is:
systemctl status apache2
If Apache is running you should see something like this:
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Tue 2019-11-19 09:37:46 UTC; 2 days ago
Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
If Apache is not running then the output would look like this:
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Fri 2019-11-22 08:41:01 UTC; 39s ago
Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
systemctl start apache2
Then check the status agian and make sure that Apache remains running.
systemctl enable apache2
apachectl -t
If you get an error, you would need to fix that problem and then you could restart Apache:
systemctl restart apache2
Syntax OK
when running apachectl -t
then your configuration is correct, so I would recommend checking your error logs:tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log
With the -f
argument, you would see the output of the log in real team, so you could visit your website via your browser, and you would be able to see the errors populating the log if there are any. To stop that, just press CTRL+C
.
Find the user that your Apache service is running as:
ps auxf | grep apache
If you are using Ubuntu, the user should be www-data
, so you would need to make sure that your files and folders are owned by that user, so Apache could read and write to those files:
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/yourdomain.com
Note: be careful with the above command as it could mess up the ownership of all of your files if you don’t specify the path correctly.
netstat -plant | grep '80\|443'
ufw
allows TCP connections on port 80 and 443:ufw status
If this is the case, you can follow the steps from this article here on how to configure your ufw
:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu-18-04
That is pretty much it, with all of the above information you should be able to narrow down the problem.
For more information I would suggest checking out this article here:
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
Thanks everything is resolved now. But how do I configure phpmyadmin to nginx and be able to open it on my domain as https://laravelapps/phpmyadmin.
Thanks
Thanks. I had initially done this. I am not using Nginx but Apache2. So far I have setup Apache2 and I am seeing this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ev9jf.png
/var/www/html/laraapp
How do I achieve these two things with Apache2 on DigitalOcean?
Thanks
How do I disable Apache and start Nginx or Disable Nginx and start Apache.
Also, which one is preferable for Laravel and Mysql Project Deployment. And also to be used as https.
I think I mix up the initial configuration with both apache and Nginx. How do I now focus on Apache?
NB: I disabled PHP7.2 and enabled PHP7.3, but when I restarted apache and run php -v I am still seeing PHP7.2
I have a deadline to deliver it today.
Thanks
I have hosted application on Digital Ocean. And I made it to be https since I am using Azure AD for Login.
Laravel-5.8 and mysql
When I stopped nginx using sudo systemctl stop nginx
I was able to restart apache, but my application stopped running. I am unable to restart nginx. And some commands begin to fail
Also, when I ran some of the commands working before they failed. For instance:
sudo chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
“no such file or directory exists”
The whole thing is just giving me stress
Do I need to downgrade to PHP 7.2 or will PHP 7.3 do it. I use PHP 7.3 ON MY LOCAL SYSTEM and it works
When I used: systemctl status apache2
I got:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/xnENV.png
and, systemctl start apache2
gives:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/AIQ35.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/jApkJ.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/tvMD0.png
Just totally confused.
What do I do?
for me helped to stop nginx and then start apache