Error “Missing owner for domain X, force lookup to root”

Posted on by Seemab Saleem

While rebuilding the Apache conf returns the following non-fatal error:

root@savannah [~]# /scripts/rebuildhttpdconf
info [rebuildhttpdconf] Missing owner for domain savannah.tcaserversolutions.com, force lookup to root
Built /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf OK

To fix this, you will need to modify the primary vhost template for the ‘nobody’ customer, which operates the primary hostname of your server.
Edit :
/var/cpanel/userdata/nobody/$hostname

and add this line to the end of the file:
owner: ‘nobody’

Then again run the following command :

/scripts/rebuildhttpdconf

and the “error” should be gone.