Errors configuring/starting apache httpd

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Apache server not starting in terminal & also tried with xampp.run , services not starting… any one help me

$systemctl start httpd.service

Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xeu httpd.service" for details.

$ systemctl status httpd.service
× httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service.d
             └─php-fpm.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-10-31 07:45:25 IST; 2min 24s ago
       Docs: man:httpd.service(8)
    Process: 69702 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 69702 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Status: "Reading configuration..."
        CPU: 56ms

Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: Starting httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server...
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualifi>
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/ht>
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory '/etc/ht>
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: AH00014: Configuration check failed
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: httpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: httpd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: Failed to start httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server.
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I would think since that was a configuration file error, and this

Means it can’t find a file or directory, or cannot access it, in this case /etc/ht

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i did n copy full text…
its httpd… and its there

httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service.d
└─php-fpm.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2022-10-31 07:45:25 IST; 2min 24s ago
Docs: man:httpd.service(8)
Process: 69702 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 69702 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Status: “Reading configuration…”
CPU: 56ms

Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: Starting httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server…
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.1.6. Set the ‘ServerName’ directive globally to suppress this message
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory ‘/etc/httpd/logs/’ for main error log
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: (2)No such file or directory: AH02291: Cannot access directory ‘/etc/httpd/logs/’ for error log of vhost defined at /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:56
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc httpd[69702]: AH00014: Configuration check failed
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: httpd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: httpd.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Oct 31 07:45:25 MerwickPc systemd[1]: Failed to start httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server.
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check this, this is the same thing happaning to me as well [Solved] Can't start or restart httpd service on Fedora 35 | solveForum

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Worth searching the web for “apache httpd ”. For example “apache httpd AH00558” gives lots of results, like:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/apache-configuration-error-ah00558-could-not-reliably-determine-the-server-s-fully-qualified-domain-name

These seem to say what the error is quite clearly—not sure why it’s looking at /etc/httpd/logs/ for the error logs, though—it should either be using systemctl or logging in /var/log/, or so I thought.

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It is common that the user edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and fill in the appropriate data there. It is also a very good idea to have the FQDN in the /etc/hostname file so the machine can be properly identified to the httpd daemon. I am not 100% certain which or both will solve the issue, but that seems the source of your error.