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# systemctl start apache2.service
Job for apache2.service failed because the control
process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xeu
apache2.service" for details.

# systemctl status apache2.service

httpd-prefork: Syntax error in -C/-c directive: Syntax error on line 2
of /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf: Could not open configuration
file /path/myapache/myapache.conf: Permission denied


/etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf

# File generated from /etc/sysconfig/apache2, do not edit. Edit the
sysconfig file instead.
Include /path/myapache/myapache.conf


It seems to find a synatx error in my fully qualified path to my config
file which has wide open permissions (using as local server only).

What am I missing?



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On Mon, 11 May 2026 22:44:25 -0400, bad sector wrote:

Include /path/myapache/myapache.conf

It seems to find a synatx error in my fully qualified path to my config
file which has wide open permissions (using as local server only).

Do all components of the path have suitable permissions?
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On 12/05/2026 04.44, bad sector wrote:

# systemctl start apache2.service
Job for apache2.service failed because the control
process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xeu
apache2.service" for details.

# systemctl status apache2.service

httpd-prefork: Syntax error in -C/-c directive: Syntax error on line 2
of /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf: Could not open configuration
file /path/myapache/myapache.conf: Permission denied

/etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/include.conf

# File generated from /etc/sysconfig/apache2, do not edit. Edit the sysconfig file instead.
Include /path/myapache/myapache.conf

It seems to find a synatx error in my fully qualified path to my config
file which has wide open permissions (using as local server only).

What am I missing?

run the following oneline (everything in the same line, just replace the
path with the real one)

apconf_path=/path/myapache/myapache.conf; while [ "$apconf_path" != "/"
]; do ls -ld "$apconf_path"; apconf_path=$(dirname "$apconf_path"); done;

the result could look something like:
-rw-r----- 1 user user 47 Jan 21 2025 /path/myapache/myapache.conf
drwxr-xr-x 1 user user 114 Apr 14 11:08 /path/myapache
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6044 May 15 21:16 /path

the wwwrun user should have access to go into each directory, so all of
them needs to be x, the file itself needs to be r for the wwwrun user.

There is few options:
1. on all directories in the path "chmod o+x /path/to/dir" and the file
itself "chmod o+r /path/myapache/myapache.conf"
2. You change the group to wwwrun and ensure that the paths all parts
has g+x for directories and g+r for the file itself.
3. You make wwwrun to be member of your user group.

The "simplest" is option 1.
--
//Aho
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