apachectl
 

Hey everyone, im new here and im very pleased to have a board like this. Ive peformed a few searches but didnt find much relating to my problem.

Basically, im running RH8 with apache Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux)


I simply want to restart the server since i made some changes to the .conf file, but that seems to be giving me trouble. From what i thought, you just implement the command , "apachectl -restart"

however, when i goto my apachectl script, i try running it and i get this error:

[root@localhost sbin]# apachectl
bash: apachectl: command not found


Can someone help me out? thanks very much

-N~

Its probably not in your $PATH..

Have you tried /sbin/apachectl ?

Or maybe with a ./ in front of it.. ? ./apachectl

thanks man, how do i add /usr/sbin to my path?

is it SET $path = /usr/sbin ??

also, ./apachectl works, but i get this for output:



./apachectl -k restart
Syntax error on line 116 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:
SSLCertificateFile: file '/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt' does not exist or is empty

im not running any ssl or anything like that so im not sure whats up.

thanks

If BASH is your shell, you can add to your path (effective after re-logging in) by editing your .bash_profile in your home directory, appending the needed information. For example, you might see a line there like this:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

So, you'll want to make it look like this:

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/sbin

It should be obvious what to do about the error because it points you to the offending line. Edit the file and comment out (eg: prepend the line with a '#' mark) that SSLCertificateFile directive.

Also, you should always run 'apachectl configtest' before trying to restart httpd.

Thank you. So if i wanted to add to the $PATH for not only myself but all users of the system, could i edit the /etc/profile file?

thanks in advance guys.

Sure.