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I receive the same message than explained in this thread when I'm trying to restart apache2 :

 * Restarting web server apache2 [fail]
 * There are processes named 'apache2' running which do not match your pid file which are left untouched in the name of safety, Please review the situation by hand.

But the problem is that I don't have any file inside /var/run/apache2. The command pidof apache2 returns :

1274

I don't know if it will help but here is the line in apache2.conf :

PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}

And the one in envvars :

export APACHE_PID_FILE=/var/run/apache2/apache2$SUFFIX.pid

Should I manually create a .pid file inside /var/run/apache2 ?

Thank you very much !

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  • How was Apache installed? LAMP, nginx, XAMPP? Upstart may not know how to handle the instance you installed if they are still invoking scripts in init.d
    – douggro
    Mar 9, 2014 at 22:09
  • I installed Apache via sudo apt-get install on Ubuntu 13.10 (on an Azure virtual machine). Do I need to type a specific command to know the invoking scripts ?
    – Ivan Gabriele
    Mar 9, 2014 at 22:14
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    sudo kill -9 1274 then try service apache2 status If it comes back with stopped/waiting then sudo service apache2 start
    – douggro
    Mar 9, 2014 at 23:58
  • Wow it worked perfectely ! I feel dumb not to have tried that before... Thank you very much @douggro !
    – Ivan Gabriele
    Mar 10, 2014 at 16:34
  • @douggro You should enter sudo kill -9 <pid> as an answer. It worked for me too.
    – inorganik
    Aug 21, 2014 at 14:16

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Thanks to @douggro who found the answer.

Find the processus id of Apache2 with :

pidof apache2

Kill the process(es) :

sudo kill -9 <pid>

Then you can start Apache2 as usually :

sudo service apache2 start

UPDATE

If sudo kill -9 <pid> doesn't work, just try sudo kill <pid> !

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    You might edit your answer to include the details and make it more useful. Comments aren't meant to store lasting information.
    – Seth
    Nov 12, 2014 at 1:05
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    Not working for me on Ubuntu 14.04.
    – Nitesh Verma
    Mar 1, 2017 at 9:33
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After trying various one liners that did not work I found this

kill -9 $(pidof apache2)

that seems to work just fine

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