Apache website failed! with no explanation

Submitted by RyanJohnson on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:10

Hey ..

A problem that just started today where I get the above error message when creating a new virtual server.

The script seems to create the virtualserver directive, but no php-cgi wrapper directive nor a fgi-bin folder.

Is there a log file somewhere that I can see what's actually breaking?

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Submitted by andreychek on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:18

Howdy -- is Apache itself running okay?

I'd look for error messages both in the Webmin log, /var/webmin/miniserv.error, as well as the Apache log, in /var/log/httpd/error_log.

Submitted by RyanJohnson on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:26

Niot sure if this has anything to do with it but I have this error:

[19/Jul/2009:14:06:53 +1000] miniserv.pl started [19/Jul/2009:14:06:53 +1000] Perl module Authen::PAM needed for PAM is not installed : Can't locate Authen/PAM.pm in ....... at (eval 10) line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 10) line 1.

Submitted by RyanJohnson on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:34

I've narrowed it down to this error:

su: user testdomain does not exist su: user testdomain does not exist su: user testdomain does not exist su: user testdomain does not exist su: user testdomain does not exist su: user testdomain does not exist

I am creating a virtual server without ticking "create admin"

Submitted by JamieCameron on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 00:05

Is this a sub-server you are creating, or a top-level server? Normally all top-level servers need to have an admin .. otherwise, they wouldn't have any owner for their files.

The underlying problem of the full error not being shown is a known bug, which will be fixed in Virtualmin 3.71.

Submitted by RyanJohnson on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 01:03

I've tried creating a top level server and the error occurs there as well.

We have a dev. server that we create our domains on first and we un tick "Create Admin user" as we don't need it created.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 00:00

This seems like a Virtualmin bug - it should really be forcing you to create an administration user, as one really is needed. If you check the "administration user" option, does it work OK?

Submitted by RyanJohnson on Thu, 07/23/2009 - 19:27

Thanks Jamie,

I tried creating creating a new account with admin ticked and it worked! This must be a new bug because I have been able to create account without ticking admin up until this week.

Cheers, Ryan