How to auto boot Apache

Manually tarting Apache is possibel with 'apachectl start', but how to start it automatically ??

If you are using RedHat, to start APACHE automatically place the following script
in /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd (make sure is excutable) then create a symbolic link from this script to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ and name the link S80httpd.
here is the script, u'll have to edit it to point to your apache installation dir.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for the Apache Web Server
#
# chkconfig: 345 85 15
# description: Apache is a World Wide Web server. It is used to serve
# HTML files and CGI.
# processname: httpd
# pidfile: /usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/httpd.pid
# config: /www/conf/access.conf
# config: /www/conf/httpd.conf
# config: /www/conf/srm.conf

# the location of the file that will be used to record the process
# id of the running apache server
#
# PIDFILE=/usr/local/etc/httpd/logs/httpd.pid
PIDFILE=/usr/local/etc/apache_1.3.12/logs/httpd.pid
#
# the location of the apache daemon binary
# BINFILE=/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd
BINFILE=/usr/local/etc/apache_1.3.12/bin/httpd
#
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting httpd: "
daemon $BINFILE
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/httpd
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down http: "
[ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && {
kill `cat "$PIDFILE"`
echo -n httpd
}
echo
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd
rm -f "$PIDFILE"
;;
status)
status "$BINFILE"
;;
restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
reload)
echo -n "Reloading httpd: "
[ -f "$PIDFILE" ] && {
kill -HUP `cat "$PIDFILE"`
echo -n httpd
}
echo
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0
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edit the PIDFILE and BINFILE variables to point to 'httpd.pid' and 'httpd' files. these files are locate in the Apache installation directory under he subdirectories 'logs/' and 'bin/'.


hope this helps..

Rodrigo

How do you make httpd executable ?

Go some error msg :
starting httpd: etc/rc5.d/S15httpd: daemon : command not found.

had manually click on the httpd file and it works.

My binfile per my installation is BINFILE=/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd

Your BINFILE=/usr/local/etc/httpd/bin/httpd

That is the only difference I can see.

Hi,
Another easy way...
remove httpd service by type
setup
uncheck httpd
then
add in last line of /etc/rc.d/rc.local
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
good luck
satit

I'm using apache 1.3.14 and i edited the file a little and it worked fine.
Thanks