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emurs's avatar
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Laravel project its working on Ubuntu server but Apache2 failed?

Hi, I'm new at server management. Someone delete the directory of phpmyadmin and I should reinstall it. I remove the package and install it again following a tutorial. The last step was restart Apache2. Surprisingly the apache package did not exist (???) BUT LARAVEL PROJECT STILL WORKING. I installed it but still could not restart (or start). Can someone tell me what is going on? and how I can solve it?

apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     		Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     		Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2022-05-10 05:58:19 UTC; 36min ago
       		Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
UNIT FILE                              STATE           VENDOR PRESET
accounts-daemon.service                enabled         enabled
apache-htcacheclean.service            disabled        enabled
[email protected]           disabled        enabled
apache2.service                        enabled         enabled
[email protected]                       disabled        enabled
...

How Laravel web is working if apache don't? Please help, regards.

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petrit's avatar
petrit
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Maybe there is nginx running. You may check it

sudo service nginx status
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emurs's avatar
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@petrit effectively, thanks

● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Thu 2022-04-28 01:59:42 UTC; 1 weeks 6 days ago
       Docs: man:nginx(8)
   Main PID: 2246425 (nginx)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 2345)
     Memory: 9.9M
     CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
             ├─2246425 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
             └─2673146 nginx: worker process

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