how to fix /etc/init.d/apache2 restart ... failed!

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When you try to restart the apic server and see this error...

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
[....] Restarting apache2 (via systemctl): apache2.serviceJob for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
 failed!

and your status shows the following error

 apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/apache2.service.d
           └─apache2-systemd.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-09-21 13:33:28 UTC; 12ms ago
  Process: 18904 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: no listening sockets available, shutting down
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: AH00015: Unable to open logs
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: Action 'start' failed.
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server apachectl[18904]: The Apache error log may have more information.
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 21 13:33:28 ubunto-server systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.

 

in most cases this is a problem because you are running.. nginx

if you stop nginx with the command

sudo /etc/init.d/nginx stop