Restarting Your Web Server

Wenever you make changes to your Apache configuration you will need to restart your Web server. Other times when restarting your Web server is required include modifying some Web based programs (such as PHP, ColdFusion, Chili!Soft, etc.) or for maintenance reasons.

To restart your Web server, you can simply issue the following command from an SSH or Telnet command prompt:

% restart_apache

The restart_apache command will shut down any running Web server processes (either httpd or httpsd), then start new ones using your current configuration.