- How to stop an apache server on ubuntu
- Stopping and Restarting Apache HTTP Server
- See also
- Introduction ¶
- Stop Now ¶
- Graceful Restart ¶
- Restart Now ¶
- Graceful Stop ¶
- Comments
- How to Start, Stop, or Restart Apache Server on Ubuntu
- Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and Debian 9.x Commands
- Start Apache Web Server
- Stop Apache Web Server
- Restart Apache Web Server
- Ubuntu 14.10 or older Debian
- Start Apache
- Stop Apache
- Restart Apache
How to stop an apache server on ubuntu
I’m trying to set up my django project to use nginx as its webserver on an EC2 Ubuntu instance following http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html. As part of this I need to install/test if nginx is active with:
sudo apt-get install nginx sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start # start nginx
mod_wsgi.listener_port '80' mod_wsgi.listener_host '' CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT '/var/www/html' SERVER_SOFTWARE 'Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)' SCRIPT_NAME u'' mod_wsgi.enable_sendfile '0' mod_wsgi.handler_script '' SERVER_SIGNATURE 'Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at ec2-**-**.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com Port 80\n' REQUEST_METHOD 'GET' PATH_INFO u'/index' SERVER_PROTOCOL 'HTTP/1.1' QUERY_STRING '' HTTP_USER_AGENT 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0' HTTP_CONNECTION 'keep-alive' SERVER_NAME 'ec2-**-**.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com' REMOTE_ADDR '107.0.193.131' mod_wsgi.request_handler 'wsgi-script' wsgi.url_scheme 'http' PATH_TRANSLATED '/home/ubuntu/tproxy/tp/tp/wsgi.py/index' SERVER_PORT '80' wsgi.multiprocess True mod_wsgi.input_chunked '0' SERVER_ADDR '172.31.28.196' DOCUMENT_ROOT '/var/www/html' mod_wsgi.process_group '' SCRIPT_FILENAME '/home/ubuntu/tproxy/tp/tp/wsgi.py' SERVER_ADMIN 'webmaster@localhost' wsgi.input HTTP_HOST 'ec2-**-**.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com'
So obviously a running apache 2 server. following http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/stopping.html, I tried:
(env1)ubuntu@ip-172-31-28-196:~/tproxy/tp$ apachectl -k stop httpd (pid 1132?) not running
Stopping and Restarting Apache HTTP Server
This document covers stopping and restarting Apache HTTP Server on Unix-like systems. Windows NT, 2000 and XP users should see Running httpd as a Service and Windows 9x and ME users should see Running httpd as a Console Application for information on how to control httpd on those platforms.
See also
Introduction ¶
In order to stop or restart the Apache HTTP Server, you must send a signal to the running httpd processes. There are two ways to send the signals. First, you can use the unix kill command to directly send signals to the processes. You will notice many httpd executables running on your system, but you should not send signals to any of them except the parent, whose pid is in the PidFile . That is to say you shouldn’t ever need to send signals to any process except the parent. There are four signals that you can send the parent: TERM , USR1 , HUP , and WINCH , which will be described in a moment.
To send a signal to the parent you should issue a command such as:
kill -TERM `cat /usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid`
The second method of signaling the httpd processes is to use the -k command line options: stop , restart , graceful and graceful-stop , as described below. These are arguments to the httpd binary, but we recommend that you send them using the apachectl control script, which will pass them through to httpd .
After you have signaled httpd , you can read about its progress by issuing:
tail -f /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log
Modify those examples to match your ServerRoot and PidFile settings.
Stop Now ¶
Sending the TERM or stop signal to the parent causes it to immediately attempt to kill off all of its children. It may take it several seconds to complete killing off its children. Then the parent itself exits. Any requests in progress are terminated, and no further requests are served.
Graceful Restart ¶
The USR1 or graceful signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they’re not serving anything). The parent re-reads its configuration files and re-opens its log files. As each child dies off the parent replaces it with a child from the new generation of the configuration, which begins serving new requests immediately.
This code is designed to always respect the process control directive of the MPMs, so the number of processes and threads available to serve clients will be maintained at the appropriate values throughout the restart process. Furthermore, it respects StartServers in the following manner: if after one second at least StartServers new children have not been created, then create enough to pick up the slack. Hence the code tries to maintain both the number of children appropriate for the current load on the server, and respect your wishes with the StartServers parameter.
Users of mod_status will notice that the server statistics are not set to zero when a USR1 is sent. The code was written to both minimize the time in which the server is unable to serve new requests (they will be queued up by the operating system, so they’re not lost in any event) and to respect your tuning parameters. In order to do this it has to keep the scoreboard used to keep track of all children across generations.
The status module will also use a G to indicate those children which are still serving requests started before the graceful restart was given.
At present there is no way for a log rotation script using USR1 to know for certain that all children writing the pre-restart log have finished. We suggest that you use a suitable delay after sending the USR1 signal before you do anything with the old log. For example if most of your hits take less than 10 minutes to complete for users on low bandwidth links then you could wait 15 minutes before doing anything with the old log.
When you issue a restart, a syntax check is first run, to ensure that there are no errors in the configuration files. If your configuration file has errors in it, you will get an error message about that syntax error, and the server will refuse to restart. This avoids the situation where the server halts and then cannot restart, leaving you with a non-functioning server.
This still will not guarantee that the server will restart correctly. To check the semantics of the configuration files as well as the syntax, you can try starting httpd as a non-root user. If there are no errors it will attempt to open its sockets and logs and fail because it’s not root (or because the currently running httpd already has those ports bound). If it fails for any other reason then it’s probably a config file error and the error should be fixed before issuing the graceful restart.
Restart Now ¶
Sending the HUP or restart signal to the parent causes it to kill off its children like in TERM , but the parent doesn’t exit. It re-reads its configuration files, and re-opens any log files. Then it spawns a new set of children and continues serving hits.
Users of mod_status will notice that the server statistics are set to zero when a HUP is sent.
As with a graceful restart, a syntax check is run before the restart is attempted. If your configuration file has errors in it, the restart will not be attempted, and you will receive notification of the syntax error(s).
Graceful Stop ¶
The WINCH or graceful-stop signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they’re not serving anything). The parent will then remove its PidFile and cease listening on all ports. The parent will continue to run, and monitor children which are handling requests. Once all children have finalised and exited or the timeout specified by the GracefulShutdownTimeout has been reached, the parent will also exit. If the timeout is reached, any remaining children will be sent the TERM signal to force them to exit.
A TERM signal will immediately terminate the parent process and all children when in the «graceful» state. However as the PidFile will have been removed, you will not be able to use apachectl or httpd to send this signal.
The graceful-stop signal allows you to run multiple identically configured instances of httpd at the same time. This is a powerful feature when performing graceful upgrades of httpd, however it can also cause deadlocks and race conditions with some configurations.
Care has been taken to ensure that on-disk files such as lock files ( Mutex ) and Unix socket files ( ScriptSock ) contain the server PID, and should coexist without problem. However, if a configuration directive, third-party module or persistent CGI utilises any other on-disk lock or state files, care should be taken to ensure that multiple running instances of httpd do not clobber each other’s files.
You should also be wary of other potential race conditions, such as using rotatelogs style piped logging. Multiple running instances of rotatelogs attempting to rotate the same logfiles at the same time may destroy each other’s logfiles.
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How to Start, Stop, or Restart Apache Server on Ubuntu
Apache is part of the popular LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack of software. It is included with the latest version of Ubuntu 18.04 by default.
This guide will show you how to start, stop, and restart Apache service on Ubuntu using the terminal.
- Access to a user account with sudo or root privileges
- An installed and configured Apache installation
- The apt package manager, included by default
- A command-line/terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-T)
Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and Debian 9.x Commands
Start Apache Web Server
For Ubuntu users with versions 16.04 and 18.04 and Debian 9.x users, use the following commands in the terminal window to start Apache:
sudo systemctl start apache2
Check status to see whether Apache is enabled with the command:
sudo systemctl status apache2
If it is running, it should display the message active (running) as in the image below.
Stop Apache Web Server
Use the following commands in the terminal window to stop Apache:
sudo systemctl stop apache2
Check status to see whether Apache is disabled with the command:
sudo systemctl status apache2
If it has stopped running, it should display the message inactive (dead) as in the image below.
Note: Learn how to check Apache version via CLI, WHM or cPanel.
Restart Apache Web Server
To restart Apache use the command:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
If Apache was previously disabled, a status check will show that it is up and running again.
Ubuntu 14.10 or older Debian
Start Apache
For Ubuntu and Debian users with an older version, use the following commands in the terminal window to start Apache:
sudo service apache2 start
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
Check status to see whether Apache is enabled with the command:
sudo service apache2 status
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 status
It should display the message active (running).
Stop Apache
To stop Apache use the following command:
sudo service apache2 stop
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
Check status to see whether Apache is disabled with the command:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 status
It should display the message inactive (dead) as in the image below.
Restart Apache
To restart Apache use the command:
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Note: The restart command can take several moments to complete, depending on the complexity of your server configuration. If you’re running a large or complex server configuration, this can cause disruptions for users who rely on the server.
Starting, stopping and restarting the Apache service on Ubuntu is straightforward. Knowing how to do these basic tasks from the terminal line makes the task faster and easier.
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