Auto Start Apache Webserver On Cent OS

Overview

How to set Apache httpd to autostart on Cent Os 5.

Make sure httpd is installed.

 /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep httpd

This should return something like

httpd           0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

Set httpd to on with chkconfig.

/sbin/chkconfig httpd on

Check httpd's settings again.

/sbin/chkconfig --list | grep httpd
httpd           0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Reboot to see if the Apache web server is actually auto-starting.

/sbin/shutdown -r now

Check for a pid (or navigate to localhost). If you get a response, it worked!

ps -f | grep httpd
root      2701  2702  0 11:28 pts/1    00:00:00 grep httpd

References

CentOS 5 and Auto Starting Apache httpd and Samba