Restart An Apache Server On Linux

You can restart an Apache server on Linux, stop it, or start it up using simple one-line commands as shown below.

Restart Apache On Linux

You can restart your Apache web server on Linux using the ‘systemctl’ as shown below. This will reload the configuration files:

sudo systemctl reload apache2

You can force restart Apache on Linux using the restart command as shown below:

sudo systemctl restart apache2

You can stop an Apache web server from running on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions using the stop command as demonstrated below:

sudo systemctl stop apache

You can start an Apache web server on Linux if it isn’t already running by using the start command as demonstrated below:

sudo systemctl start apache2

In order to check if Apache is running, you can run the status command as shown below and you should see :

sudo systemctl status apache2

The output should either say ‘Active: active (running)’ or ‘Active: inactive (dead)’.