Failed to start httpd service Unit httpd service is masked

Question

Hi Guys,

I have httpd web server in my system. But when I tried to start its service I got this below error.

$ systemctl start httpd
Failed to start httpd.service: Unit httpd.service is masked.

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

A masked service is used to prevent an unwanted start of this service. If you are sure that httpd shouldn't be masked, you can just unmask and then restart your service.

$ systemctl unmask httpd
$ systemctl restart httpd

Hope this helps!

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Comments

it worked.  thnx!

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No its not working for me

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Hi@Priya,

Can you share your error? Which O.S. you are using?