Turn off Apache - how?

[3rdalbum]

I have Apache installed to serve files occasionally to people who request them on MSN. I'd like to turn off Apache at the times that I'm not using it.

I thought that, in order to shut down Apache, you typed:
apache2ctl -k stop

But when I do that, it tells me that "httpd is not running". And indeed, the server does keep running.

I have Apache listening on a high numbered port (in the 6000s).

Is there another way of shutting down Apache from the command line?

[petterah]

Hi, you could use the invoke-rc.d script, or specify full path, like this:

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

or

invoke-rc.d apache2 stop

If you want to disable the apache2 at boot, try this:

update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

To enable it again, this should do the trick:

update-rc.d apache2 defaults 91

The last number is the priority, when apache will start... the default number with me when apache was installed was 91, but if you don't specify a number it will give a smaller number pri - it will start quiker... i think the 91 is ok to use on a desktop system.

-Petter-

[armen_shlang]

I'm also having the same problem and i tried all the command s that you have listed but trying all those gave me this message:

open: Permission denied
* Stopping web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
httpd (pid 5775?) not running
open: Permission denied

Cheers.

[finferflu]

Did you try with sudo?

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop