apache question

I was wondering if there is a way for me to get apache to run in the background on boot.

1) You should have changed your topic to How to start Apache on boot. This is Apache forum, all questions are supposed to be Apache-related anyway.

2) Set your ServerType standalone and use whatever startup script to start it up. Since you haven't provided the most important info: What platform, I can't help you further. Anyhow, here is a sample of Apache startup script at /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh on FreeBSD:

#!/bin/sh

if ! PREFIX=$(expr $0 : "\(/.*\)/etc/rc\.d/$(basename $0)\$"); then
echo "$0: Cannot determine the PREFIX" >&2
exit 1
fi

case "$1" in
start)
[ -x ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl ] && ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl start > /dev/null && echo -n ' apache'
;;
stop)
[ -r /var/run/httpd.pid ] && ${PREFIX}/sbin/apachectl stop > /dev/null && echo -n ' apache'
;;
*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2
;;
esac

exit 0