apache server and httpd

ust · 02-12-2009, 09:53 AM

I have installed apache server then apachectl start it , now I found that there are some services called httpd are running , but I found some web server is running apache service ( not httpd ) , can adivse what is the difference of them ? thx

Tinkster · 02-12-2009, 02:48 PM

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but I found some web server is running apache service ( not httpd )

Where/how did you find that?

frieza · 02-12-2009, 03:03 PM

httpd is apache as far as i know, apache service is probably the user name that apache runs as

at terminal prompt
$ps -ef | grep apache should return something like

Code:

apache    2942  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2943  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2944  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2945  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2946  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2947  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2948  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache    2949  2923  0 14:36 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
root      3957  3618  0 15:06 pts/0    00:00:00 grep apache

the user apache (or something similar like www-data) is a virtual useer created by linux so that the web server is only given the priveleges necessary to do it's job and nothing more so if apache is compromised the rest of the machine isn't