Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 768

startssl
Starts Apache with SSL support if it is not already running. For more information
about SSL support, refer to
SSL"
restart
Stops then restarts Apache. Starts the Web server if it was not running before.
try-restart
Stops then restarts Apache only if it has been running before.
reload or graceful
Stops the Web server by advising all forked Apache processes to first finish their
requests before shutting down. As each process dies, it is replaced by a newly
started one, resulting in complete "restart" of Apache.
TIP
rcapache2 reload is the preferred method of restarting Apache in
production environments, for example, to activate a change in the configu-
ration, because it allows all clients to be served without causing connection
break-offs.
configtest
Checks the syntax of the configuration files without affecting a running Web
server. Because this check is forced every time the server is started, reloaded, or
restarted, it is usually not necessary to run the test explicitly (if a configuration error
is found, the Web server is not started, reloaded, or restarted).
probe
Probes for the necessity of a reload (checks whether the configuration has changed)
and suggests the required arguments for the rcapache2 command.
server-status and full-server-status
Dumps a short or full status screen, respectively. Requires either lynx or w3m in-
stalled as well as the module mod_status enabled. In addition to that, status must
be added to APACHE_SERVER_FLAGS in the file /etc/sysconfig/apache2.
768 Installation and Administration
(page 779).
Section 41.6, "Setting Up a Secure Web Server with