Fixing httpd: [warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping

I have a CentOS webserver with the Apache and PHP installed on it and it works perfectly but when I restart the Apache service, I get this error:

[warn] module php5_module is already loaded, skipping

To solve this problem, I have to verify this module load call in two files and need to remove/comment from one of these file.

First, I need to check Apache main file:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Yes, the module load call exist in this file:


Also check the php.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf

Yes, module load call also exist here, so to fix this warning, we’ll comment/remove the module load call here:

#LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so

Restart the httpd service:

sudo service httpd restart

This time, it didn’t display the warning!

Hope this will help you!

How to recover deleted Apache Log

Scenario: The server is running Apache and by mistake one of the log files gets deleted. How, we can recover it?

Currently, Apache server is working perfectly:



Login/Switch to as root user:



Move to the httpd in log directory:

cd /var/log/httpd

Delete the log file:

rm -f access_log

So the log file has been deleted,now find the process number for main apache procees that owned by root:

ps aux | grep httpd

In this case, the pid for the main apache process is 1784.

Now lets list the file descriptors:

ls -lsa /proc/1784/fd

Stop the apache service:

service httpd stop

Now copy the access log file that is marked as deleted (In this case it is 7) into the log directory:

cp /proc/1784/fd/7 /var/log/httpd/access_log

Start the apache service again:

service httpd start

Access the webpage again from your server:



Verify the log file:

tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log

It’s working

Hope this will help you!