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APACHECTL(8) apachectl APACHECTL(8)
NAME
apachectl - Apache HTTP Server Control Interface
SYNOPSIS
When acting in pass-through mode, apachectl can take all the arguments available
for the httpd binary.
apachectl [ httpd-argument ]
When acting in SysV init mode, apachectl takes simple, one-word commands, defined
below.
apachectl command
SUMMARY
apachectl is a front end to the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server.
It is designed to help the administrator control the functioning of the Apache
httpd daemon.
The apachectl script can operate in two modes. First, it can act as a simple front-
end to the httpd command that simply sets any necessary environment variables and
then invokes httpd, passing through any command line arguments. Second, apachectl
can act as a SysV init script, taking simple one-word arguments like start,
restart, and stop, and translating them into appropriate signals to httpd.
If your Apache installation uses non-standard paths, you will need to edit the
apachectl script to set the appropriate paths to the httpd binary. You can also
specify any necessary httpd command line arguments. See the comments in the script
for details.
The apachectl script returns a 0 exit value on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
For more details, view the comments in the script.
OPTIONS
Only the SysV init-style options are defined here. Other arguments are defined on
the httpd manual page.
start Start the Apache httpd daemon. Gives an error if it is already running. This
is equivalent to apachectl -k start.
stop Stops the Apache httpd daemon. This is equivalent to apachectl -k stop.
restart
Restarts the Apache httpd daemon. If the daemon is not running, it is
started. This command automatically checks the configuration files as in
configtest before initiating the restart to make sure the daemon doesn’t
die. This is equivalent to apachectl -k restart.
fullstatus
Displays a full status report from mod_status. For this to work, you need to
have mod_status enabled on your server and a text-based browser such as lynx
available on your system. The URL used to access the status report can be
set by editing the STATUSURL variable in the script.
status Displays a brief status report. Similar to the fullstatus option, except
that the list of requests currently being served is omitted.
graceful
Gracefully restarts the Apache httpd daemon. If the daemon is not running,
it is started. This differs from a normal restart in that currently open
connections are not aborted. A side effect is that old log files will not be
closed immediately. This means that if used in a log rotation script, a sub-
stantial delay may be necessary to ensure that the old log files are closed
before processing them. This command automatically checks the configuration
files as in configtest before initiating the restart to make sure Apache
doesn’t die. This is equivalent to apachectl -k graceful.
configtest
Run a configuration file syntax test. It parses the configuration files and
either reports Syntax Ok or detailed information about the particular syntax
error. This is equivalent to apachectl -t.
The following additional option is available, but deprecated.
startssl
This is equivalent to apachectl -k start -DSSL. We recommend that you use
that command explicitly, or you adjust your httpd.conf to remove the <IfDe-
fine> section so that SSL will always be available.
Apache HTTP Server 2004-01-06 APACHECTL(8)
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