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How To Restart Apache On A Linux Box

by Mark E. Mason on March 1, 2009

I got a question by email this weekend that reminded me that a lot of internet marketers don't know much about web servers.  That's OK.  You don't really need to know much.  In case I am describing you, just know that a web server is the program on your host computer that serves web pages.  There are two main flavors -- Apache and MicroSoft IIS.

Apache dominates the market -- althought IIS has a role, especially in enterprise deployments that interface heavily with .NET and Windows.

Apache is available for Unix/Linux and Windows.  Sometimes, bad things happen and you need to restart Apache on your host.  Now, this can be accomplished via CPanel.  However, I prefer to do it at the command line.  Here is the command:


/etc/init.d/httpd restart

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