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Common operations, such as restarting and reloading

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Common operations, such as restarting and reloading

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When it's running, Apache isn't just one monolithic service. It's actually a parent service with multiple child processes, each of which can be serving different pages to viewers at any given time. As a result, controlling the apache service is more like a manager giving direction to a team. Instructions take place through a parent which, in turn, manages the children. The result is more fault tolerant and has higher performance through work distribution. There are a number of ways of interacting with the Apache service. Apache comes bundled with a script called apachectl that is used for management. Some linux distributions provide another layer of a distraction on top of apachectl to unify how the service is controlled. Which I'll discuss in greater detail. There are a number of actions that we can take for controlling the Apache service. The first is status which show what Apache is doing at any given time. Not every Apache server includes this functionality by default. It may need…

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