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Enable mpm-itk in Webmin

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The Apache HTTP Server is designed to be a powerful and flexible web server that can work on a very wide variety of platforms. Apache web server shipts with a selection of Multi-Processing Modules (MPMs) which are responsible for binding to network ports on the machine, accepting requests, and dispatching children to handle the requests.  Two … Read more

Error: Failed to create temporary file

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Issue ====== The apache error log shows [Wed Oct 28 23:49:30 2015] [error] [client xx.xx.xxx.xxx] ModSecurity: Input filter: Failed to create temporary file: /root/tmp/20151028-234930-VjGXSkAWQiQAA@W7VAsAAAAD-request_body-nKiZdT [hostname “www.xxxx.com”] [uri “/wp-admin/admin.php”] [unique_id “VjGXSkAWQiQAA@W7VAsAAAAD”] The issue is because the modsecurity has no access on /root/tmp directory. So while accessing /root/tmp it will show the error “Failed to create temporary … Read more

Error : “Identifier removed: couldn’t grab the accept mutex” in apache error logs

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Apache was getting stopped automatically with the below logs in the Apache Error log:

[Tue Jul 22 22:29:35 2014] [alert] Child 30758 returned a Fatal error… Apache is exiting!
[Tue Jul 22 22:29:35 2014] [emerg] (43)Identifier removed: couldn’t grab the accept mutex
[Tue Jul 22 22:29:35 2014] [emerg] (43)Identifier removed: couldn’t grab the accept mutex
[Tue Jul 22 22:29:35 2014] [emerg] (43)Identifier removed: couldn’t grab the accept mutex

These type of errors occur on systems low on memory or file handlers.The AcceptMutex directives sets the method that Apache uses to serialize multiple children accepting requests on network sockets.

One suggested resolution for the error message would be to try adding the following line to /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf file:

AcceptMutex fcntl

If you add this above “<IfModule prefork.c>” in tht file, you could then try running these commands to distill the change and restart Apache:

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