(13)Permission denied: Error retrieving pid file run/httpd.pid

Question

I have installed httpd-2.2.29 using commands:

./configure --prefix=/home/user/httpd
make
make install

I configured httpd.conf and tried to start with apache: apachectl start. But got following error:

(13)Permission denied: Error retrieving pid file run/httpd.pid Remove it before continuing if it is corrupted.

I tried to find file httpd.pid, but where is no such file.

Could someone help me resolve such issue?

Answer 1

Did you try and start apache as a non privileged user? Permission denied suggests that you did. Try this instead:

$ sudo apachectl start

Answer 2

I use:

$ sudo service httpd start

In the place of start you can put stop, restart, and etc.

Answer 3

In my case, service was in running mode, I used restart command

$ sudo apachectl restart

Answer 4

In my case, I fixed it with the following:

sudo killall httpd

Verified that there were no other httpd-related processes running

ps -elf | grep httpd

Started the httpd service again

sudo service httpd start

Confirmed that the httpd service was running again

sudo service httpd status