{"id":8558,"date":"2020-04-30T13:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:15:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:15:12","slug":"stop-start-restart-apache-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/stop-start-restart-apache-service\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop, Start and Restart Apache Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One thing you will eventually need to know as you crawl through web servers is how to stop, start and restart the Apache service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason you will need to do this is usually Apache requires a restart when there is a change in configuration for the changes to take effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a slight problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/apache\">Apache<\/a> is a cross-platform web server. Not only do these servers have different names, but the installation locations vary, there are different scripts used to manage the server depending on the distro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seeing that different platforms might use different binary or script names it might be good to get that out of the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Generally, Debian, <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/ubuntu\">Ubuntu<\/a>, and their variants use apache2 as the binary name. All other major Linux and <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/unix\">Unix<\/a> distros like openSUSE, SLES, Fedora Core, CentOS, RHEL, and macOS use httpd. Windows uses httpd.exe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop, Start and Restart Apache Service Using httpd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method 1: System V. Init scripts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/httpd\/restart\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/httpd\/start\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/httpd\/stop\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/httpd\/status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu or Debian\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2\/restart\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2\/start\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2\/stop\n$ sudo \/etc\/init.d\/apache2\/status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method 2: Systemd<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo systemctl restart httpd\n$ sudo systemctl start httpd\n$ sudo systemctl stop httpd\n$ sudo systemctl status httpd<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu or Debian\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo systemctl restart apache2\n$ sudo systemctl start apache2\n$ sudo systemctl stop apache2\n$ sudo systemctl status apache2<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method 3: service command<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo service httpd restart\n$ sudo service httpd start\n$ sudo service httpd stop\n$ sudo service httpd status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>On Ubuntu or Debian\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo service apache2 restart\n$ sudo service apache2 start\n$ sudo service apache2 stop\n$ sudo service apache2 status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Method 4: Apache binary script<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo apachectl restart\n$ sudo apachectl start\n$ sudo apachectl stop\n$ sudo apachectl status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>or<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-bash\">$ sudo apache2ctl restart\n$ sudo apache2ctl start\n$ sudo apache2ctl stop\n$ sudo apache2ctl status<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the user is not root which is most of the time, you will need to prepend <code>sudo <\/code>as shown in the above commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you will eventually need to know as you crawl through web servers is how to stop, start and restart the Apache service. 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