Apache does not work after server 5.0.3 upgrade

For me, the solution ended up being simple. I had updated to server 5.0.4 and checked all the folders in regard to certificates etc and found everything in place. I administer two schools and in the mail server dns box i had school.school.nz I changed both servers to mail.school.school.nz and added all the E-Mail addresses and that cured the problem. I dont think this would have worked with 5.0.3 and Apple have "tweaked" something in 5.0.4. but adding mail to the domain name in the mail server does work 100% for me.

Hi, thanks.

All these I had correct there, but how I saw another feeds here, the problem is bigger. I have directly installed the 5.0.4 version.

I was need to make a time TimeMachine restore, while after 2 days I was unable to use it.

How I see, after my posts on Apple Bugs Centre they are interested to see what happened.

Another solution for a similar symptom.

Apache was loading, and the sites were listed as available, but the httpd server wasn't responding on port 80/tcp or 443/tcp

My SSL certs in /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf where all listed correctly, but the apache service proxy was starting and then immediately dying.

for my server, I traced the fault to another service/process running on 443/tcp (CrushFTP) that must have launched first, grabbed the 443/tcp and then when the apache service proxy tried to start, it couldn't grab the port so it quit. I checked the logs and it wasn't reporting the port as in use though.

I've now stopped the other process from using 443/tcp and the apache service proxy immediately stepped up and starting working.

Hope this helps someone else 🙂

It appears to work on one redirected site but not the others.

The thing that ended up working for me was that I took all https calls out of my page, then I used .htaccess to rewrite my URLs. I had been rewriting http calls with PHP but that totally broke the page.

File Contents:

Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Oddly I can't serve the page up on my local machine in Safari, even though I cleared all data from Safari -> Preferences -> Privacy. Works great in Firefox and Chrome. Also works great in Safari on everybody else's machine.

This took two days of searching and trying various things. I hope you have better luck than I resolving everything quickly. Arrgh!

Sidenote on upgrading to 5.04: If you have an existing directory named directory (mine was a staff directory) 5.04 will throw an error saying the website was turned off and can be turned on in the server application. It looks like you can't even create a directory named directory.