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Relocated pidfile causing httpd to start but not stop
Submitted by admin on Thu, 12/18/2014 - 21:56
Most of our PHP builds are based on Zend Server, but just occasionally we'll need an up-to-date Apache for PCI compliance.
doapache handles most of the details, but it relies on Puppet Labs' apache module. The module was locating the HTTPD pidfile in /var/run/httpd.pid, but it didn't update the /etc/init.d/httpd start/stop script. That means that Apache could start properly, but not stop, because it couldn't find the newly created pidfile.
The solution was to make the symlink in /etc/httpd/run point to ../../var/log/httpd:
cd /etc/httpd
ln -snf ../../var/log/httpd run
