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X10nD

Reputation: 22040

Restart httpd after changes in the httpd.conf

Do I need to restart httpd after changes in the httpd.conf file for changes to take effect?

Upvotes: 51

Views: 74038

Answers (3)

Brian Minton
Brian Minton

Reputation: 3777

You can have apache re-read its config files without restarting by sudo apachectl graceful (or apache2ctl on debian).

From the Apache docs:

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. [...] This command automatically checks the configuration files as in configtest before initiating the restart to make sure Apache doesn't die.

Upvotes: 4

Raghunandan J
Raghunandan J

Reputation: 604

Yes you need to restart the server by

sudo service httpd restart

You can check errors in your config files by 

apachectl -t

Changes may take some time to reflect.

Upvotes: 9

Codemwnci
Codemwnci

Reputation: 54884

Yes. HTTPD.conf is read on apache start-up, so for any changes to take affect you need to restart it.

Upvotes: 38

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