Apache2 won't start after upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS

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ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$ grep -i includeopt /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf
IncludeOptional conf.d/domains/webmail.*.conf
IncludeOptional conf.d/domains/*.conf
ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$

ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$ ls -l /etc/apache2/
ls -l /etc/apache2/conf.d/
total 104
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2321 Mar 17 08:49 apache2.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  2351 Mar 16 19:51 apache2.conf.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7178 Mar 17 08:49 apache2.conf.vst.back
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 17 13:44 conf-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 17 08:19 conf-enabled
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Mar 14 01:02 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  1782 Jan 23 22:51 envvars
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31063 Jan 23 22:51 magic
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Mar 17 08:19 mods-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 17 11:39 mods-enabled
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    50 Mar 17 09:55 ports.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    20 Mar 16 19:58 ports.conf.old
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 17 11:00 sites-available
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 17 08:19 sites-enabled
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 10 10:18 suexec
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  518 Jul 25  2024 10.0.0.13.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 17 14:46 domains
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  150 Feb  3 21:45 hestia-event.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  999 Feb  3 21:45 phpmyadmin.inc
ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$
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I see no obvious problems, all looks fine. You missed to show this command:

apache2ctl -M | grep -E 'mpm|php'
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ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$ sudo apache2ctl -M | grep -E ‘mpm|php’

AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using OCI-HCP.SPXZDTE.com. Set the ‘ServerName’ directive globally to suppress this message

mpm_event_module (shared)

ubuntu@OCI-HCP:~$

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It’s fine too. Could you please show the logs for one of your domains?

The log should be here: /var/log/apache2/domains/YourDomain.error.log

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10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:22:52 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.0” 500 3734 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-admin/” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:25:47 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:25:47 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:25:47 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.0” 500 3734 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-admin/” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:46:54 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:50:23 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:87.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/87.0”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:51:00 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:51:01 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:14:51:01 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.0” 500 3734 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-admin/” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:03:14 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:03:14 -0700] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “https://www.jeffsdraincleaning.com/” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:04:19 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like G>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:04:49 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:04:50 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:04:50 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.0” 500 3734 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-admin/” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:07:51 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:07:51 -0700] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “https://www.jeffsdraincleaning.com/” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:25:19 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:42:23 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:42:23 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-login.php” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:42:23 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/ HTTP/1.0” 500 3734 “https://jeffsdraincleaning.com/wp-admin/” “GRequests/0.10”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:47:29 -0700] “GET / HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “https://www.jeffsdraincleaning.com/” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, li>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:15:58:48 -0700] “GET /wp-login.php HTTP/1.0” 500 3047 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0”

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:16:15 -0700] “GET /wp-admin/css/ HTTP/1.0” 403 3254 “binance.com” "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) C>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:24:53 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/chaty-pro/css/chaty-front.min.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:24:57 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/homevillas-real-estate/style.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) >

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:03 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/realhomes/style.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/6>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:08 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/k-elements/readme.txt HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKi>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:10 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/security-malware-firewall/readme.txt HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac O>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:17 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/directorybox/style.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKi>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:28 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/indeed-wp-superbackup/admin/assets/css/style.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:39 -0700] “GET /wp-content/plugins/post-grid/readme.txt HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit>

10.0.0.13 - - [17/Mar/2025:16:25:46 -0700] “GET /wp-content/themes/homey/style.css HTTP/1.0” 404 3511 “-” "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.

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That means php works, the problem is the connection with the database:

The database server could be connected to (which means your username and password is okay) but the Jeff_jeff database could not be selected.

    Are you sure it exists?
    Does the user Jeff_78020 have permission to use the Jeff_jeff database?
    On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_Jeff_jeff. Could that be the problem?

Check the databases and users in your DB (if you are using mysql instead of mariadb, replace mariadb by mysql):

mariadb -uroot -e 'SHOW DATABASES;'
mariadb -uroot -e 'SELECT user,host FROM mysql.user;'

Also, check if your user has the right privileges to access the DB:

mariadb -uroot -e 'SHOW GRANTS FOR "Jeff_78020"@"%";'
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After your last post I tried to crate a new site and here is what I get after trying to install WordPress.

Install WordPress

Downloading from https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/releases/download/v2.11.0/wp-cli-2.11.0.phar… md5 hash verified: beaae9eba59e9331f4a432208bc5ddfa Error: Cannot do ‘Process::run’: The PHP functions proc_open() and/or proc_close() are disabled. Please check your PHP ini directive disable_functions or suhosin settings. Error: cmd exited with errors

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How are you trying to install it… using the Quick Install App or manually? I’m asking because the proc_open function is disabled by Hestia in PHP-FPM by default due to security reasons. You can either use the Quick Install App, which uses PHP CLI to install WordPress, or temporarily enable the proc_open function for your PHP version.

Example for php 8.3:

cp /etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini /root/php.ini.backup-php83-fpm
sed -i -E -e "s/(^disable_functions.*),?proc_open(.*$)/\1\2/" -e 's/,$//' -e 's/ ,/ /g' -e 's/,,/,/g' /etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini
systemctl restart php8.3-fpm

Now, install WordPress and once you finish, restore php.ini file:

cp -f /root/php.ini.backup-php83-fpm /etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini
systemctl restart php8.3-fpm
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sudo apt install apache2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
apache2-bin : Depends: libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 but it is not installable or
libaprutil1-dbd-mysql but it is not installable or
libaprutil1-dbd-odbc but it is not installable or
libaprutil1-dbd-pgsql but it is not installable or
libaprutil1-dbd-freetds but it is not installable
Depends: libaprutil1-ldap but it is not installable
Depends: libaprutil1t64 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
apache2-utils : Depends: libaprutil1t64 (>= 1.5.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

i am getting this error on ubuntu 24.04, how do i fix it ?

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