Restarting Apache Server

nightfox

Mar 15 2006, 10:44 PM

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.

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Houdini

Mar 15 2006, 11:19 PM

/sbin/service httpd reload

mastercomputers

Mar 16 2006, 05:45 AM

QUOTE(Houdini @ Mar 16 2006, 12:19 PM)

/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

XIII

Mar 16 2006, 06:27 AM

QUOTE(Houdini @ Mar 16 2006, 08:19 AM)

/sbin/service httpd reload

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?

yordan

Mar 16 2006, 06:09 PM

QUOTE

i think that depends on the version, 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 ?

XIII

Mar 17 2006, 10:34 AM

QUOTE(yordan @ Mar 17 2006, 03:09 AM)

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

OpaQue

Mar 17 2006, 04:10 PM

Try these.

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

nightfox

Mar 18 2006, 10:42 PM

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?

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mastercomputers

Mar 19 2006, 12:57 PM

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

bakr_2k5

Sep 25 2006, 02:45 PM

QUOTE(nightfox @ Mar 16 2006, 12:44 AM)

Hi nightfox,

try this command as root:

CODE

httpd -k restart

bakr_2k5

<edit>
Uh yes sorry about that, kinda old thread but anyway didn't know if the problem was gone

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iGuest

Aug 6 2008, 05:13 AM

Replying to mastercomputers Replying to nightfox

How was apache installed ??
If its residing under one of the system path then simple "service httpd restart" should have worked but if its source compiled with a different --prefix folder which you are not aware of then use "ps -wwaux | grep httpd" to get process listing , this will also give you the path under which you have the binaries, in my case I got this

Daemon 30146 0.0 0.0 171808 5548 ? S 22:12 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start
Daemon 30321 0.0 0.0 171808 5552 ? S 22:21 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start
Daemon 31419 0.0 0.0 171808 5544 ? S 23:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start
Daemon 31421 0.0 0.0 171808 5552 ? S 23:18 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -k start

My apache resides under "/usr/local/apache" so I can use
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart/graceful/reload, I hope this info may be of some use.

-reply by Robinson

bakr_2k5

Sep 25 2006, 07:54 PM

QUOTE(yordan @ Sep 25 2006, 09:48 PM)

Probably, yes. I'm using "Kernel 2.6.9-22.EL on an i686."

I'm on a 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 64bit (x86_64)
Perhaps RedHat packages are a bit more expert orientated?
Since RedHat is really a server distro...
Well who knows.

These commands work too on my system

CONSOLE

apachectl restart
apachectl -k restart
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

bakr_2k5

yordan

Sep 25 2006, 07:48 PM

QUOTE

Strange .. Maybe some different versions?

Probably, yes. I'm using "Kernel 2.6.9-22.EL on an i686."

bakr_2k5

Sep 25 2006, 03:06 PM

I use Fedora Core 5 and it states in the man pages:

QUOTE

NAME
httpd - Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server

SYNOPSIS
httpd [ -d serverroot ] [ -f config ] [ -C directive ] [ -c directive ]
[ -D parameter ] [ -e level ] [ -E file ] [ -k start|restart|grace-
ful|stop|graceful-stop ] [ -R directory ] [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -S ] [
-t ] [ -v ] [ -V ] [ -X ] [ -M ]

Strange .. Maybe some different versions?