My site recently crashed, while trying to determine what was causing the issue I entered the command:

# cd /var/log/apache2
root@*********:/var/log/apache2# ls

and got this:

access.log       error.log.2.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.16.gz
error.log        error.log.3.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.17.gz
error.log.1      error.log.4.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.18.gz
error.log.10.gz  error.log.5.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.19.gz
error.log.11.gz  error.log.6.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.20.gz
error.log.12.gz  error.log.7.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.21.gz
error.log.13.gz  error.log.8.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.22.gz
error.log.14.gz  error.log.9.gz                 other_vhosts_access.log.2.gz
error.log.15.gz  other_vhosts_access.log        other_vhosts_access.log.3.gz
error.log.16.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.1      other_vhosts_access.log.4.gz
error.log.17.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.10.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.5.gz
error.log.18.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.11.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.6.gz
error.log.19.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.12.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.7.gz
error.log.20.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.13.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.8.gz
error.log.21.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.14.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.9.gz
error.log.22.gz  other_vhosts_access.log.15.gz

Obviously I was curious so I entered this command:

root@**********:/var/log/apache2# nano error.log.10.gz

… and received this:

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I opened another one and got this:

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So not very much help to say the least. Can anyone give me some ideas on what caused the error within my error logs? I rebooted the droplet and the site is now back online but I’m concerned that whatever caused the crash will happen again since I have no idea how it started in the first place. Any help would be greatly appreciated.