All sorts of issues here… resolved by removing the httpd.conf file, removing PHP 5.5 and reinstalling.

Not helped by the fact that five days ago the gods at FreeBSD’s Ports management moved the apache module, either.

:)

It’s all working now! Yay!

On Apr 1, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:

> So I tried upgrading my production server a few months ago to Apache 2.4 and authnz_external was broken (BSD build issue) and last night after having success in my development environment rolling back to 2.2 I rolled back the production server to 2.2.27. Now I get this error:
> 
> 
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache]
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [notice] Digest: done
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [notice] Apache/2.2.27 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.27 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- resuming normal operations
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:01 2014] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid: couldn't determine user name from uid 4294967295, you probably need to modify the User directive
>> [Tue Apr 01 17:28:02 2014] [alert] Child 6115 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting!
>> 
> 
> 
> Most of the google references for the alert error are referencing 1.3 and those that aren’t say the User and Group are wrong or missing in httpd.conf - they are definitely correct and reflect valid system users (www, user and group 80).
> 
> Has anyone experienced this before? I’ve uninstalled pwauth, all references to authnz_external and reinstalled both to no avail. 
> 
> I’m trying to integrate my LDAP installation into a few directories so my photographers have the same user/password prompts for those folders as they do for email and FTP.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> Ryan
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