{"id":3281,"date":"2015-12-23T06:28:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T06:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2021-02-06T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T10:56:09","slug":"http-failed-to-start-because-of-syntax-error-in-httpd-conf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/http-failed-to-start-because-of-syntax-error-in-httpd-conf\/","title":{"rendered":"HTTP failed to start because of syntax error in HTTPD.conf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We have recently installed\u00a0CentOS 6 and trying to configure Apache virtual hosts to host several domains \/ websites without any control panel like cPanel.<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-786\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But after editing <strong>\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf<\/strong> file for virtual hosts, Apache was fail to start with following error message:<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 1008 of \/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf:CustomLog takes two or three arguments, a file name, a custom log format string or format name, and an optional \u201cenv=\u201d clause (see docs)[\/wpfmb]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To resolve this error, follow the steps below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SSh into your server as an root user<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Open <strong>\/etc\/httpd\/conf\/httpd.conf<\/strong> file in any text editor like nano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Go to the line which is throughing error message. 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