i get error on apache start 'apache2: bad user name superkkt'

Question

Whe I start apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start i get this error message

 root@h1975757:~# sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache                                                                                                 
apache2: bad user name superkkt

I tried add apache2.conf

User www-data
Group www-data

no luck file envars contains the same data

how to fix this?

root@h1975757:~# uname -a Linux 2.6.32-042stab078.27 #1 SMP Mon Jul 1 20:48:07 MSK 2013 i686 GNU/Linux

Answer 1

first check your apache error_log file for more details. And then look in the httpd.conf file for the line that starts with "User" that defined the user superkkt that Apache is going switch to running as. Check that the user is listed in a valid user on the server