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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 translat-
ing 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 neces-
sary 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 initi-
ating 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 substantial delay may be neces-
sary to ensure that the old log files are closed before processing them. This com-
mand automatically checks the configuration files as in configtest before initiat-
ing the restart to make sure Apache doesn't die. This is equivalent to apachectl -k
graceful.
graceful-stop
Gracefully stops the Apache httpd daemon. This differs from a normal stop in that
currently open connections are not aborted. A side effect is that old log files
will not be closed immediately. This is equivalent to apachectl -k graceful-stop.
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 option was available in earlier versions but has been removed.
startssl
To start httpd with SSL support, you should edit your configuration file to include
the relevant directives and then use the normal apachectl start.
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