Help! I cannot start litespeed from commandline!

[DavidPesta]

Good morning, I have run into something of an emergency.

I really need to brush up more on how this system works, it is extremely important that I get this server up again ASAP!

All I did was set the admin listener Secure to 'Yes' and on graceful restart, it brought the whole webserver down.

[root@plain /]# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl start
[OK] License key verification passed! Software upgrade expires in 224 days.
[OK] lshttpd: pid=10298.
[root@plain /]# /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl reload
[ERROR] lshttpd is not running.

I cannot seem to find where the litespeed log file is!

Please help!

David

 

[DavidPesta]

I found the log file:

2007-04-12 12:12:34.721 [NOTICE] Your free software update will expire in 224 days.
2007-04-12 12:12:34.721 [NOTICE] Loading LiteSpeed/3.0.1 Enterprise ...
2007-04-12 12:12:34.722 [NOTICE] [ADMIN] server socket: 127.0.0.1:7078
2007-04-12 12:12:34.722 [NOTICE] Loading configuration from /usr/local/lsws/conf/httpd_config.xml ...
2007-04-12 12:12:34.724 [NOTICE] [config] chroot is disabled.
2007-04-12 12:12:34.724 [INFO] old priority: 0, new priority: 0
2007-04-12 12:12:34.724 [INFO] [config:server:basic] For better obscurity, server version number is hidden in the response header.
2007-04-12 12:12:34.727 [ERROR] [config:admin:listener:adminListener] missing <certFile> in <listener>
2007-04-12 12:12:34.727 [ERROR] [config:admin:listener] No listener is available for admin virtual host!
2007-04-12 12:12:34.727 [ERROR] Fatal error in configuration, exit!


This looks related to turning Secure to 'Yes' in the admin listener. Now I just need to figure out how to set it back without the web interface..

If you could help me with this while I try to figure it out, that would be most helpful.

Thanks!
David

 

[DavidPesta]

I am trying to find the config file to turn the admin listener Secure back to 'No' as this should fix it. I cannot seem to find the config file for this...still looking.

Please let me know where that config file would be if you get this.

Thanks!
David

 

[DavidPesta]

Ah ha! The config file was inside of the lsws/admin/conf/ and not the lsws/conf/

Now I know for next time.

30 minutes of down time is not too bad. All is good!

David

 

[mistwang]

If you set "Secure" to "Yes", you need to specify SSL key and certificate as well.

 

[DavidPesta]

I'll try that with my test server next time.

Thanks!
David