Topic: How to start and stop apache on ubuntu

[Chris12]

Hi,

I have installed Apache on ubuntu as per our project related manual by using the packages.

httpd-2.4.4.tar.gz
apr-1.4.6.tar.gz
apr-util-1.5.2.tar.gz

I copied apr-1.4.6 apr-util-1.5.2 (after extract) to srclib directory of apr-util-1.5.2

and created symbolic links as below

ln –s apr-1.4.6 apr
ln –s apr-util-1.5.2 apr-util

and configured httpd-2.4.4 with
./configure --with-included-apr

and make ; make install;

now my apache is running , but how to stop and start the apache.

I googled for reference and found it can be done using

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

I dont have apache2 in my /etc/init.d folder.

Can some one help me out on how to start and stop.

[James Blond]

first find out where apache is:
sudo whereis httpd

example /usr/sbin/httpd

than

sudo /usr/sbin/httpd -k stop

sudo /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
sudo /usr/sbin/httpd -k graceful