On Fri 2 Jun 2023, at 03:58, Gareth Evans <donots...@fastmail.fm> wrote: <snip> > Firefox at http(s)://localhost/sitename gives a 503 <snip> > Neither /var/log/apache2/error.log nor /var/log/syslog seem to provide > any clues to the problem.
I take that back, and apache 503 issue solved - /etc/apcache2/conf-available/php7.4-fpm.conf is not purged during/after upgrade. $ sudo cat /var/log/apache2/error.log <snip> [Sat Jun 03 01:16:18.274637 2023] [proxy:error] [pid 681699] (2)No such file or directory: AH02454: FCGI: attempt to connect to Unix domain socket /run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock (*:80) failed [Sat Jun 03 01:16:18.274742 2023] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 681699] [client 127.0.0.1:44366] AH01079: failed to make connection to backend: httpd-UDS user@qwerty:~$ sudo apt remove php7.4-fpm <snip> Package 'php7.4-fpm' is not installed, so not removed user@qwerty:~$ sudo a2dismod php7.4-fpm ERROR: Module php7.4-fpm does not exist! user@qwerty:~$ apt policy php7.4-fpm php7.4-fpm: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: 7.4.33-1+deb11u3 -1 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status user@qwerty:~$ apt policy php7.4 php7.4: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: user@qwerty:~$ user@qwerty:~$ sudo a2dismod php7.4 Module php7.4 already disabled user@qwerty:~$ ls /etc/apache2/conf-avail*|grep php7 php7.4-fpm.conf user@qwerty:/etc/apache2/conf-available$ sudo mv php7.4-fpm.conf php7.4-fpm.conf.ignore user@qwerty:/etc/apache2/conf-available$ sudo service apache2 restart Works as expected, except may need to change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride [your settings of choice] in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf for .htaccess to be honoured. HTH someone. Gareth