passenger-install-apache2-module unable to detect MPM with Apache 2.4

[betesh]

When running passenger-install-apache2-module, I get this warning:

WARNING: Apache doesn't seem to be compiled with the 'prefork', 'worker' or 'event' MPM

Phusion Passenger has only been tested on Apache with the 'prefork', the
'worker' and the 'event' MPM. Your Apache installation is compiled with
the '' MPM. We recommend you to abort this installer and to recompile
Apache with either the 'prefork', the 'worker' or the 'event' MPM.

However, this warning is not applicable in RHEL 7, since these modules don't need to be compiled with Apache, but rather are loaded as modules in the configuration file. See the "Processing Model" section at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-Web_Servers.html#s2-apache-version2-changes

There probably still is some sort of check that should be done--perhaps make sure that exactly 1 of the modules is loaded by the configuration file. But the warning needs to be reworded.

Passenger installed as gem. RVM 1.26.11. Ruby 2.2.2.

[betesh]

By the way I'm getting the same warning on Ubuntu 15. I think it really just depends on the Apache version: 2.4.x

[FooBarWidget]

Which Passenger version are you using?

[OnixGH]

@FooBarWidget I get the message also on Ubuntu 14.04, apache 2.4.7, latest stable.

[betesh]

5.0.15

[FooBarWidget]

It turns out the problem is not related to the Apache version, but to the way distributions wrap around the apache2ctl script. We run 'apache2ctl -V' to detect the MPM, but that command doesn't work on recent Ubuntu versions if the config file contains an error. And now, it seems Red Hat behaves like that too. I am on OS X, which doesn't do this.

We already check for broken config files and display a different warning in that case, but it seems the check didn't work correctly. This has now been fixed.