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Restart Apache without closing open connections

February 7th, 2010 No comments

After making changes to Apache’s configuration file (httpd.conf), it is necessary to restart Apache for the changes to take effect. A normal restart will close active connections which may cause problems for users.

To restart Apache gracefully without aborting open connections or to start Apache if it is not running:
apachectl graceful

If apachectl is not in your PATH and you don’t know where it is, refer to the recipe Find a file by name to find the location of apachectl, then run it with the fully qualified path, for example:
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful

Bonus: add your dir into your PATH
vim ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/my/directory