Hi,

I have downloaded Apache source

httpd-2.0.52.tar.gz

and installed on my FreeBSD test server.

Installation went well just like on Linux.

Now i can start and stop Apache with

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl

But can't use like

service httpd start|stop|status

Is that only available in Linux ?

How do i supposed to start and stop apache in FreeBSD ?

Also how to make Apache suto start ?

Regards,

Yujin

It really amounts to no more than a script for the init scripts. You can usually find the "service" script in /sbin; it should be pretty easy to replicate in FreeBSD (with which I have very little experience).

Thanks for the info. I am new to FreeBSD. Thinking of switching to FreeBSD as RH is now Paid and don't want to depend on Fedora or CentOS.

So in FreeBSD, i need to use

/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl stop|start

for stoping and starting apache ? Any other short cuts ?

Can u tell me how to make Apache auto start ? Now i have to login and start Apache manually.

Regards,

Yujin

Without rewriting the handbook -- Here's the short answer. Most ports that have daemons place a startup script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d/<something>.sh

When the system is coming up, rc executes all the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ that end in .sh. Fairly recently, a mechanism wa added so that you have to enable the daemons in /etc/rc.conf. You can find out what variables need to be set by running the script with the argument rcvar. So, for Apache, do this: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh rcvar. You should get something like this:
You need to place that in your rc.conf. Then your apache will start at boot time.

As for starting/stopping manually, you can either use apachectl or /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh. The rc script is really just a wrapper around apachectl, so either one will work fine.

Thanks sigsegv for the help. Now got some idea. I have installed by compiling apache source from apache.org

I am supposed to install Apache with Ports ? If yes, how i do ? Will i able to configure ? Like

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache2 --enable-rewrite

Read this and this.

Thanks for the links. I read both. But still can't get Apache installed in FreeBSD way.

First i removed the existing Apache

rm -rf /usr/local/apache2

that i installed from source.

My FreeBSD version is 5.2. Now i tryed sysinstall, but can't find apache on the CD, also tryed FTP site, but says release v5.2 not found on FTP server.

I go to

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html

and searched apache-2

And downloaded

http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ports/www/...r.gz?tarball=1

But this is a small file, 30 KB in size.

Can't find out how to install it.

Regards,

Yujin

The FreeBSD team doesn't appear to be housing packages for 5.2R anymore, so you'll either have to upgrade to 5.3 (which I would personally recommend over 5.2) or install the ports system detailed here and at the previous URLs I posted.

What you downloaded is the port metafiles that control the build. They consist of a makefile and some other stuff that tells the system how to fetch and build Apache (and required supporting programs if any)