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Unable to start Apache on a Plesk server: No matches for the wildcard '*.conf' in

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Kuzma Ivanov
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Plesk for Linux kb: technical ABT: Group B

Applicable to:

  • Plesk for Linux

Symptoms

Apache web-server fails to start with the following error message in configuration:

Note: The name of the ModSecurity rule-set in the error message may vary.

  • on CentOS/RHEL-based distributions

    # httpd -t
    httpd: Syntax error on line 353 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 5 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/security2.conf: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf/modsecurity.d/zz_rules.conf: No matches for the wildcard '*.conf' in '/etc/httpd/conf/modsecurity.d/rules/modsecurity_crs-plesk', failing (use IncludeOptional if required)

  • on Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions:

    # apache2ctl -t
    apache2: Syntax error on line 141 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 4 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/security2.conf: Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/apache2/modsecurity.d/zz_rules.conf: No matches for the wildcard '*.conf' in
    '/etc/apache2/modsecurity.d/rules/tortix', failing (use IncludeOptional if required)

Cause

The ModSecurity configuration file zz_rules.conf contains links to non-existent files.

Resolution

 

For CentOS/RHEL-based distributions

 

  1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.

  2. Open the file zz_rules.conf in a text editor. In this example, we are using the vi editor:

    # vi /etc/httpd/conf/modsecurity.d/zz_rules.con

  3. Replace "Include" with "IncludeOptional" in all lines.

  4. Save the changes and close the file.

  5. Start Apache:

    # service httpd start

  6. Log in to Plesk > go to Tools & Settings > Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity) and activate ModSecurity.

 

For Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions

 

  1. Connect to the Plesk server via SSH.

  2. Open the file zz_rules.conf in a text editor. In this example, we are using the vi editor:

    • # vi /etc/apache2/modsecurity.d/zz_rules.conf

  3. Replace "Include" with "IncludeOptional" in all lines.

  4. Save the changes and close the file.

  5. Start Apache:

    # service apache2 start

  6. Log in to Plesk > go to Tools & Settings > Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity) and activate ModSecurity.

 

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