Learning to make the hard things easy

Linux and Apache commands

Here are some commands that we use at the Gazette on our Linux web server.  It is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2.

Reload Apache Conf file
/etc/init.d/httpd reload

Restart Apache
apachectl -k graceful (didn’t work on Rackspace)

Restart Apache from ssh
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Modify Apache conf file
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

vi commands
i enter edit mode
esc to exit edit mode (command mode)
:wq to write changes and quit (in command mode)
:!q quit without saving

Memory Use

free -t -m

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