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Hmmm it looks like an issue with some Apache config. I'm not super familiar but this is likely something related to Wordpress.
I'll open this up to the community to lend you a hand!

I looked at the internal logs related to your volume and all appeared well.

are you using a custom dockerfile or one of the railway wordpress templates?

Thanks everyone! The source image is this: https://hub.docker.com/_/wordpress which I would expect to be the best available / to work. I have not customised the dockerfile in any way.

The image was running fine for several months. The only changes I made were (a) DNS (which seemed to work) followed by (b) migrating from US to EU. It is at that second step that this error appeared.

can you add this in your start script? a2dismod mpm_worker && a2enmod mpm_prefork

The reason why you get the error is because the image has been updated and something has changed in apache. One suggestion I can giv eyou is to pin the image to a particular version instead of using the latest version.

Thanks. The previous start script (I had not configured this - it came from the template was:

/bin/bash -c "echo 'ServerName 0.0.0.0' >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && echo 'DirectoryIndex index.php index.html' >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && echo 'upload_max_filesize = 50M' >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini && echo 'post_max_size = 50M' >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini && docker-entrypoint.sh apache2-foreground"

It took a while to figure out how to merge in that command, @fra, but it worked. The issue was something to do with the return values where there might be error values, indicating something to do with MPM, yet we wanted to continue anyway. I am now using:

/bin/bash -c "echo 'ServerName 0.0.0.0' >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && echo 'DirectoryIndex index.php index.html' >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf && echo 'upload_max_filesize = 50M' >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini && echo 'post_max_size = 50M' >> /usr/local/etc/php/php.ini && (a2dismod mpm_event || true) && (a2dismod mpm_worker || true) && a2enmod mpm_prefork && docker-entrypoint.sh apache2-foreground"

where you can see the || true etc and the order the commands were inserted.

Thankyou very much for your help!