title: Unable to start apache on centos server, no error given, just timing out
body: <p>I'm new to apache and ssh in general so I would appreciate any help even if this is a stupid thing I'm missing.</p>
  
  <p>I'm migrating a site to a new server and am setting up httpd. I've had to update the old httpd.conf to 2.4 standard which it seems to now be, but now when I run <code>systemctl start httpd</code> it hangs for upwards of 3 minutes before returning:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Job for httpd.service failed because a fatal signal was delivered to the control process. See "systemctl status httpd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
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  <p><code>status httpd.service</code> returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: failed (Result: signal) since Wed 2019-01-16 14:58:37 GMT; 35s ago
       Docs: man:httpd(8)
             man:apachectl(8)
    Process: 30118 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=killed, signal=KILL)
   Main PID: 30118 (code=killed, signal=KILL)
     CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service
  
  Jan 16 14:55:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
  Jan 16 14:57:07 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
  Jan 16 14:58:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service stop-final-sigterm timed out. Killing.
  Jan 16 14:58:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
  Jan 16 14:58:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
  Jan 16 14:58:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
  Jan 16 14:58:37 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service failed.
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  <p><code>journalctl -xe</code> returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>Jan 16 15:13:34 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Cannot add dependency job for unit rpcbind.socket, ignoring: Unit not found.
  Jan 16 15:13:34 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...
  -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun start-up
  -- Defined-By: systemd
  --
  -- Unit httpd.service has begun starting up.
  Jan 16 15:15:04 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service start operation timed out. Terminating.
  Jan 16 15:16:35 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service stop-final-sigterm timed out. Killing.
  Jan 16 15:16:35 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL
  Jan 16 15:16:35 server.miniserver.com systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
  -- Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed
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  <p>httpd\error_log:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Wed Jan 16 15:13:34.752306 2019] [auth_digest:notice] [pid 30342:tid 140325595289728] AH01757: generating secret for digest authentication ...
  [Wed Jan 16 15:13:34.753268 2019] [core:warn] [pid 30342:tid 140325595289728] AH00098: pid file /etc/httpd/run/httpd.pid overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
  [Wed Jan 16 15:13:34.754601 2019] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 30342:tid 140325595289728] AH00489: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) configured -- resuming normal operations
  [Wed Jan 16 15:13:34.754626 2019] [core:notice] [pid 30342:tid 140325595289728] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND'
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  <p>I don't necessarily know how to parse all of it and I don't know if anything stands out especially. What else can I do to further debug?</p>