I have had a few of those. I recall we had one setup where when apache crashed, it screwed up the PID file, so when you did an apachctl call, it listed the service as already running, but it wasn't.

You can accomplish this by using the Combined Log Format rather than the default Common Log Format. In your Apache configuration files, search for the CustomLog keyword, and modify it to look like the ...

In order to effectively manage a web server, it is necessary to get feedback about the activity and performance of the server as well as any problems that may be occurring. The Apache HTTP Server ...