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When your running your own lamp on vps having a cheatsheet like this for Apache may come in handy. Especially when the rubber hits the road.
Stop your web server
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| sudo systemctl stop apache2
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Start the web server when it is stopped, type:
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| sudo systemctl start apache2
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Stop and then start the service again, type:
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| sudo systemctl restart apache2
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Reload without dropping connections.
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| sudo systemctl reload apache2
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Re-enable the service to start up at boot, type:
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| sudo systemctl enable apache2
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| sudo a2ensite your_domain.conf
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Disable the default site defined in 000-default.conf:
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| sudo a2dissite 000-default.conf
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Test for configuration errors:
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| sudo apache2ctl configtest
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REBOOT reboot a server from the command line, run:
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| sudo systemctl disable apache2
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Query the state of apache processes
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| sudo systemctl status apache2.service -l --no-pager
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Check apache for config errors
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| sudo apachectl configtest
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Search apache error log
This will only search 2 lines
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| sudo tail -n 2 /var/log/apache2/error.log
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View apache error log
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| vim /var/log/apache2/error.log
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Troubleshooting
Apache not starting
Find out what the problem is:
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| sudo apachectl configtest
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Whenever i delete certificates and then restart the server. then apache fails to start up because some of the certificate files still need to be deleted. All the details for this are output in the configtest log.