.TH httpd 8 "February 1997" .\" The Apache Software License, Version 1.1 .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2000 The Apache Software Foundation. All rights .\" reserved. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in .\" the documentation and/or other materials provided with the .\" distribution. .\" .\" 3. 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For more .\" information on the Apache Software Foundation, please see .\" . .\" .SH NAME httpd \- Apache hypertext transfer protocol server .SH SYNOPSIS .B httpd [ .B \-X ] [ .BI \-R " libexecdir" ] [ .BI \-d " serverroot" ] [ .BI \-f " config" ] [ .BI \-C " directive" ] [ .BI \-c " directive" ] [ .BI \-D " parameter" ] .B httpd [ .B \-h ] [ .B \-l ] [ .B \-L ] [ .B \-v ] [ .B \-V ] [ .B \-S ] [ .B \-t ] [ .B \-T ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon process. When used like this it will create a pool of child processes to handle requests. To stop it, send a TERM signal to the initial (parent) process. The PID of this process is written to a file as given in the configuration file. Alternatively .B httpd may be invoked by the Internet daemon inetd(8) each time a connection to the HTTP service is made. .PP This manual page only lists the command line arguments. For details of the directives necessary to configure .B httpd see the Apache manual, which is part of the Apache distribution or can be found at http://www.apache.org/. Paths in this manual may not reflect those compiled into .B httpd. .SH OPTIONS .TP 12 .BI \-R " libexecdir" This option is only available if Apache was built with the .I SHARED_CORE rule enabled which forces the Apache core code to be placed into a dynamic shared object (DSO) file. This file is searched in a hardcoded path under ServerRoot per default. Use this option if you want to override it. .TP 12 .BI \-d " serverroot" Set the initial value for the ServerRoot directive to \fIserverroot\fP. This can be overridden by the ServerRoot command in the configuration file. The default is \fB/usr/local/apache\fP. .TP .BI \-f " config" Execute the commands in the file \fIconfig\fP on startup. If \fIconfig\fP does not begin with a /, then it is taken to be a path relative to the ServerRoot. The default is \fBconf/httpd.conf\fP. .TP .BI \-C " directive" Process the configuration \fIdirective\fP before reading config files. .TP .BI \-c " directive" Process the configuration \fIdirective\fP after reading config files. .TP .BI \-D " parameter" Sets a configuration \fIparameter\fP which can be used with ... sections in the configuration files to conditionally skip or process commands. .TP .B \-h Output a short summary of available command line options. .TP .B \-l Output a list of modules compiled into the server. .TP .B \-L Output a list of directives together with expected arguments and places where the directive is valid. .TP .B \-S Show the settings as parsed from the config file (currently only shows the virtualhost settings). .TP .B \-t Run syntax tests for configuration files only. The program immediately exits after these syntax parsing with either a return code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0 (Syntax Error). .TP .B \-T Same as option .B \-t but does not check the configured document roots. .TP .B \-X Run in single-process mode, for internal debugging purposes only; the daemon does not detach from the terminal or fork any children. Do NOT use this mode to provide ordinary web service. .TP .B \-v Print the version of .B httpd , and then exit. .TP .B \-V Print the version and build parameters of .B httpd , and then exit. .SH FILES .PD 0 .B /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf .br .B /usr/local/apache/conf/srm.conf .br .B /usr/local/apache/conf/access.conf .br .B /usr/local/apache/conf/mime.types .br .B /usr/local/apache/conf/magic .br .B /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log .br .B /usr/local/apache/logs/access_log .br .B /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid .PD .SH SEE ALSO .BR inetd (8).