How To Restart Apache For Each Linux Distribution
Seeing as how there are several ways to restart Apache for each Linux distribution, I found a few sources that have them listed out and figured it would be a good thing to share for those who like to reference back to different sites for their commands. Below you can find a few different ways for each distro to restart Apache.
Restart Apache On Ubuntu
service apache2 restart
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
apache2ctl restart
Restart Apache On CentOS
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
service httpd restart
/sbin/service httpd restart
Restart Apache On Debian
service apache2 restart
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
apache2ctl restart
Restart Apache On Suse
/usr/sbin/rcapache2 restart
apache2ctl restart
Restart Apache On Fedora
apachectl restart
/sbin/service httpd restart
Restart Apache On RedHat
/etc/init.d/httpd status
service httpd restart
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl restart