- Starting web server apache2 apache2: bad user name www-data
I just tried restarting my webserver because of an update I did to my php.ini and originally I was getting something about the PID file being overwritten.
Now I just get this: * Starting web server apache2 apache2: bad user name www-data
this has NEVER happened before, and I haven't changed and permissions or apache2 configuration files.
What gives?
Best Answer
1. You may deleted user www-data. Check
id www-data
, output should be like this:If no such user exists, add it:
adduser www-data
2. You may overwritten your Apache config with config from other computer, where exists user
www-data
. If so, restore old config, or check config and replace user with existent one (for example,www
).