How To Restart an Apache Web Server (Linux)

If your Linux Apache Web server is started, you can stop and restart it with just a couple of steps.

Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1 minute

Here's How:

1. Login to your Web server machine using SSH or telnet.
2. Su to root.
3. Run the apache control program:
apachectl graceful
4. You can also run the apache control program in this way:
apachectl restart

Tips:

1. graceful reloads the configuration files and gracefully restart. Any current connections are allowed to complete.
2. restart reloads the configuration files and restarts. Any current connections are terminated immediately.
3. If the server isn't running, these commands will start it up.