Where is httpd?

FrankBlourtango · 08-07-2007, 02:35 PM

I'm going through the article on apache.org about making sure you have the web server locked down for security.

But in ubuntu, I can't locate that actual httpd executive. I know it's somewhere because I have the webserver running.

Anyone know?

Hangdog42 · 08-07-2007, 02:43 PM

If you run which httpd in a console, it will tell you where it is.

FrankBlourtango · 08-07-2007, 02:47 PM

I got nothing. which httpd gives me nothing, even when entered from the console in the root directory by root.

This is most odd.

I tested which and locate using a file called test.cpp that I know the location of: locate finds it but which = nada.

Hangdog42 · 08-07-2007, 03:00 PM

I'll say that's odd. You could try running the find command (find / -name httpd) or with locate (locate httpd) and those will search the hard drive for it. On my system it is in /usr/sbin, but Slackware tends to be a bit different in where it puts stuff.

The other thing to do would be look in the apache startup script and see if it give the full path.

And just in case.....Are you sure you're running Apache? There are other web servers and maybe you're running one of those.

FrankBlourtango · 08-07-2007, 03:36 PM

nothing with find.

now check this out.

root@ube:/# ps aux | grep httpd

root 15546 0.0 0.2 2880 752 pts/1 R+ 16:28 0:00 grep httpd

so it's running somewhere....

farslayer · 08-07-2007, 03:57 PM

Did you consider the process might not be named httpd in Ubuntu ?

This is from my Debian Etch box..

Code:

it-etch:~# netstat -anp | grep ::80
tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN     3114/apache2

it-etch:~# which apache2
/usr/sbin/apache2

whatever the process name that comes back on the far right, search for that.. in my case it's apache2

All your ps command returned was the grep process searching for httpd.... without actually returning any valid results

Code:

it-etch:~# ps aux | grep apache2
root      3114  0.0  0.2   9468  2452 ?        Ss   16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  3115  0.0  0.1   9468  1952 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  3116  0.0  0.1   9468  1952 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  3117  0.0  0.1   9468  1952 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  3119  0.0  0.1   9468  1952 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
www-data  3120  0.0  0.1   9468  1952 ?        S    16:55   0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start
root      3235  0.0  0.0   2852   724 pts/0    S+   16:58   0:00 grep apache2

custangro · 08-07-2007, 04:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FrankBlourtango

nothing with find.

now check this out.

root@ube:/# ps aux | grep httpd

root 15546 0.0 0.2 2880 752 pts/1 R+ 16:28 0:00 grep httpd

so it's running somewhere....

Your ps found the grep that is running. It seems that it is not running at all. If "find / -name httpd" did not find anything then you don't have apache installed.

FrankBlourtango · 08-07-2007, 05:07 PM

I found it. It is called apache, not httpd.
I should have known that, since to find the PID you look up /var/run/apache.pid and you can start and stop it with apachectl .

Hey there is a reason I'm in the newbie forum. I'm pretty clueless.

Thanks for the help!