I've worked with Apache long enough that I know (or at least I thought I knew) how to restart it. The problem: my terminal is filled with "command not found" and other errors and the such.

httpd restart, right? NOPE! Command not found!
apachectl restart, NOPE! Command not found!

I'm out of ideas! I can't just keep physically re-booting the machine when I need JUST apache to restart! Thanks for any help, my system is Debain 3.1 r1.

[N]F

/sbin/service httpd reload

Houdini is close but the proper commands you can do is

/sbin/service httpd start
/sbin/service httpd stop
/sbin/service httpd restart

Which restart is is the one you've after, can only be performed by root or a super user.

I usually do:

su -c "/sbin/service httpd restart"

Which is similar to sudo but I feel is much better to use than sudo, it may not work with some older distributions.


Cheers,


MC

i think that depends on the version, right?
for me it works when i type:

CODE

sudo /etc/apache/apachectl restart

i think this is because my apache version is 1.3, right?

Really depends on version.
On my system I have to do
cd $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/bin
./apachectl stop
./apachectl start

sounds rather different, isn't it ?

Nope, it's the same mate, as it's the same command, me too i can do it directly by ./apachectl restart or stop then start, i meant the difference is wither it's httpd, apache 1.34 or apache2, that's what i meant

Try these.

1. service apache restart
2. /etc/init.d/httpd restart

I don't get this... I've tried every command you guys have given and none of them work!

service apache restart gives me: "bash: service: command not found"
/etc/init.d/httpd restart gives me: "bash: /etc/init.d/httpd: No such file or directory"
/etc/apache/apachectl restart gives me: "/etc/apache/apachectl: No such file or directory"
/sbin/service httpd reload gives me: "/sbin/service: No such file or directory"

hmm... I don't know... the file structure seems to be normal.
var/www contains all of the default documents, etc/apache2 seems to have everything normal. Is there a way I could go about uninstalling Apache and re-installing it?

[N]F

OK then, give us the important information that we need.

What distribution are you running? What version of Apache do you have installed?

Going by what you've said you say you've got Apache2, in /etc/Apache2, that sounds like Debian or a variant of it.

So the command that you will need to use is

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or

apache2ctl restart

For the apache2ctl command, If it returns command not found, do:

which apache2ctl

And it will show paths of where this command could exist, then you would do /path/to/apache2ctl restart


Cheers,


MC

Hi nightfox,

try this command as root:


bakr_2k5

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Uh yes sorry about that, kinda old thread but anyway didn't know if the problem was gone
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This post has been edited by bakr_2k5: Sep 25 2006, 02:49 PM