Apache server not starting

Question

My apache server just don't start! I get the following error:

apache2: Syntax error on line 203 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/alias.load: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so into server: /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_alias.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Action 'start' failed. The Apache error log may have more information.

And my error logs at /var/log/apache2 is empty! I also checked the /usr/lib/apache2 folder and I don't see any folder named modules. I have three folders in /usr/lib/apache2.. namely:

1. mpm-event
2. mpm-prefork
3. mpm-worker

Each of these folder seems to have a shared library name apache2 !! Where did my modules folder go?

Tried Solution: I tried removing the apache2 package and installing it back.. and I get a strange warning from apt-get command:

$ sudo apt-get remove apache2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libsm-dev libice-dev x11proto-kb-dev ttf-dejavu-extra libxdmcp-dev xtrans-dev x11proto-core-dev xorg-sgml-doctools libxt-dev
x11proto-input-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libxau-dev libpthread-stubs0 libx11-dev ca-certificates-java libxcb1-dev Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: apache2 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 94 not upgraded. After this operation, 36.9 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... dpkg: warning: files list file for package `mysql-server-5.1' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-central' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `apache2-utils' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `python-glade2' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libaprutil1' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `patch' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `meld' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

dpkg: warning: files list file for package `libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed. (Reading database ... 302380 files and directories currently installed.) Removing apache2 ...

Anybody know what's causing this and how to resolve this?

Answer 1

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -y install apache2

Paste the error and also cat /etc/lsb-release

Apache2 error log would be in /var/log/apache2/error.log