Did a little bit of Apache reading after a client query yesterday, it seems restarting httpd is not all that it seems! start – start httpd startssl – start httpd with SSL enabled stop – stop httpd restart – restart httpd if running by sending a SIGHUP or start if not running fullstatus – dump a full status screen; requires lynx and mod_status enabled status – dump a short status screen; requires lynx and mod_status enabled graceful – do a graceful restart by sending a SIGUSR1 or start if not running Is the normal course of events from apachectl, but what about if we want to restart with SSL? A route around this as sugeested by someone is to remove… Continue reading »