HTTPD(8)                                                      httpd                                                     HTTPD(8)



NAME
       httpd - Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server


SYNOPSIS
       httpd  [  -d  serverroot ] [ -f config ] [ -C directive ] [ -c directive ] [ -D parameter ] [ -e level ] [ -E file ] [ -k
       start|restart|graceful|stop|graceful-stop ] [ -R directory ] [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -L ] [ -S ] [ -t ] [ -v ] [ -V ] [ -X ] [ -M
       ] [ -T ]


       On Windows systems, the following additional arguments are available:


       httpd [ -k install|config|uninstall ] [ -n name ] [ -w ]



SUMMARY
       httpd  is  the  Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon
       process. When used like this it will create a pool of child processes or threads to handle requests.


       In general, httpd should not be invoked directly, but rather should be invoked via apachectl on Unix-based systems or  as
       a service on Windows NT, 2000 and XP and as a console application on Windows 9x and ME.



OPTIONS
       -d serverroot
              Set  the initial value for the ServerRoot directive to serverroot. This can be overridden by the ServerRoot direc-
              tive in the configuration file. The default is /etc/httpd.

       -f config
              Uses the directives in the file config on startup. If config does not begin with a /, then it is  taken  to  be  a
              path relative to the ServerRoot. The default is conf/httpd.conf.

       -k start|restart|graceful|stop|graceful-stop
              Signals httpd to start, restart, or stop. See Stopping Apache for more information.

       -C directive
              Process the configuration directive before reading config files.

       -c directive
              Process the configuration directive after reading config files.

       -D parameter
              Sets a configuration parameter which can be used with <IfDefine> sections in the configuration files to condition-
              ally skip or process commands at server startup and restart. Also can be used to set certain  less-common  startup
              parameters including -DNO_DETACH (prevent the parent from forking) and -DFOREGROUND (prevent the parent from call-
              ing setsid() et al).

       -e level
              Sets the LogLevel to level during server startup. This is useful for temporarily increasing the verbosity  of  the
              error messages to find problems during startup.

       -E file
              Send error messages during server startup to file.

       -R directory
              When the server is compiled using the SHARED_CORE rule, this specifies the directory for the shared object files.

       -h     Output a short summary of available command line options.

       -l     Output  a  list  of modules compiled into the server. This will not list dynamically loaded modules included using
              the LoadModule directive.

       -L     Output a list of directives together with expected arguments and places where the directive is valid.

       -M     Dump a list of loaded Static and Shared Modules.

       -S     Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently only shows the virtualhost settings).

       -T (Available in 2.2.17 and later)
              Skip document root check at startup/restart.

       -t     Run syntax tests for configuration files only. The program immediately exits after these syntax parsing tests with
              either a return code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0 (Syntax Error). If -D DUMP_VHOSTS is also set,
              details of the virtual host configuration will be printed. If -D DUMP_MODULES  is set, all loaded modules will  be
              printed.

       -v     Print the version of httpd, and then exit.

       -V     Print the version and build parameters of httpd, and then exit.

       -X     Run httpd in debug mode. Only one worker will be started and the server will not detach from the console.


       The following arguments are available only on the Windows platform:



       -k install|config|uninstall
              Install  Apache  as  a Windows NT service; change startup options for the Apache service; and uninstall the Apache
              service.

       -n name
              The name of the Apache service to signal.

       -w     Keep the console window open on error so that the error message can be read.




Apache HTTP Server                                         2010-09-28                                                   HTTPD(8)