Gracefully restarts the Apache httpd daemon. If the daemon is not running, it is started. This differs from a
normal restart in that currently open connections are not aborted. A side effect is that old log files will not
be closed immediately. This means that if used in a log rotation script, a substantial delay may be necessary to ensure that the old log files are closed before processing them. This command automatically checks
the configuration files as in configtest before initiating the restart to make sure Apache doesn?t die.
This is equivalent to apachectl -k graceful.
( excerpt from manual page of apachectl )
Actually it sends a SIGUSR1 for a restart. The USR1 or graceful signal causes the parent process to advise the children to exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they're not serving anything). The parent
re-reads its configuration files and re-opens its log files.As each child dies off the parent replaces it with a child
from the new generation of the configuration, which begins serving new requests immediately.
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--> apachectl configtest
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service httpd stop -- works fine, if you have added apache as one of the service in your config.
apachectl stop -- use this if you want to stop apache through apache's way.
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