Debian/Ubuntu Linux Specific Commands to Start/Stop/Restart Apache Engine

Debian Linux version 7.x or Ubuntu Linux version Ubuntu 14.10 or older:

Restart:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

sudo service apache2 restart

Stop
/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

sudo service apache2 stop

/etc/init.d/apache2 start

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

sudo service apache2 start

Debian Linux version 8.x+ or Ubuntu Linux version Ubuntu 15.04+ or above:

sudo systemctl start apache2.service

sudo systemctl stop apache2.service

sudo systemctl restart apache2.service

sudo systemctl status apache2.service

CentOS/RHEL (Red Hat) Linux version 4.x/5.x/6.x:

## Start ##

service httpd start

## Stop ##

service httpd stop

## Restart ##

service httpd restart

CentOS/Fedora/RHEL (Red Hat) Linux version 7.x or newer:

## Start command ##

sudo systemctl start httpd.service

## Stop command ##

sudo systemctl stop httpd.service

## Restart command ##

sudo systemctl restart httpd.service

Alpine Linux:

service apache2 start

service apache2 stop

service apache2 status

service apache2 restart