Please Note: Before you can start your Red Hat Apache/SSL Server, you must have either a
test certificate or a "real" certificate (provided by a Certificate
Authority like VeriSign or Thawte) installed. If you attempt to start
the httpsd process without having a certificate
installed, the Web server will start, but it will only run in
non-secure mode, just as if you were simply running Apache.
During the installation process, a server startup file named
httpsd was installed into
/etc/rc.d/init.d. To manually stop and start the
server, run this httpsd command with either
stop or start as an
argument.
To start your server, type the command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd start
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You will be prompted to fill in your password. After you type it in,
your server will start.
To stop your server, type the command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd stop
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The command restart is a shorthand way of stopping
and then starting your server. restart does
explicitly stop and then start your server, so you will be prompted for
your password. restart looks like the following:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd restart
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If you just finished editing something in your
httpd.conf file, you don't need to explicitly stop
and start your server. Instead you may use the
reload command. The benefit of using
reload is that you will not need to type in your
password. Your password will remain cached across reloads, but it will
not be cached betweens stops and starts. reload
looks like the following:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpsd reload
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After a reload, your server will start without prompting you for your
password.
If you want your server to start automatically when your machine boots,
you need to create symlinks from the rc3.d and
rc0.d directories to the httpsd
command. The following commands create the symlinks to start the httpsd
process at boot time:
cd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
ln -s ../init.d/httpsd S99httpsd
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The following commands create symlinks which tell your system to stop the
httpsd process when the system shuts down.
cd /etc/rc.d/rc0.d
ln -s ../init.d/httpsd K99httpsd
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If you are running the X Window System, you can use
tksysv to create these symlinks.
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