Apache service randomly fails to start

[thomasbbb]

Hello,

Most of time the deployment goes smoothly and everything starts as experted, but sometimes the apache service never manage to start. Same commands, same everything.

Any idea what the issue could be? Maybe it only takes to add timeouts at the cluster or resource level?

[thomasbbb]

Does httpd need to be enabled and started? Or just installed and not even running?

[Chaitanya83 · Accepted solution]

You need to enable the service at run time and strat it manually for first
time. Later it will start on it’s own as its enabled on run level

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[TudorRaduta]

@Chaitanya83 - thanks for offering your help! 

[Chetan_Tiwary_ · Accepted solution]

@thomasbbb installing the app does not make it run or automatically enabled it at runtime. 

for the first time , after installing httpd, you can do "systemctl enable --now httpd "

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/deploying_different_types_o... 

Yes the issue could  be caused by timeouts (TimeoutStartSec ) that are too aggressive for the service, race conditions with resource dependencies, port or prpcess conflicts etc.