I made change to my httpd.conf file on CentOS Linux. How do I reload my Apache (httpd) server without restarting the system or apache 2 server itself?
We run the following command as root user to reload httpd:
apachectl -k graceful
apachectl2 -k graceful
## OR ##
httpd -k graceful
Reloading apache httpd on CentOS 7 or 8
The command is
sudo systemctl reload httpd.service
# Verify it
sudo systemctl status httpd.service
CentOS version 6.x or older reload command
sudo service httpd reload
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