What is the "correct way" for starting apache2 as a service in UNIX (Ubuntu)

["Ravindranath M" <ravindranath.m@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Apache team and other friends,

 

According to official Apache documentation, the correct way to start httpd is to use apachectl.  When I start this way it works.  Since I am using Ubuntu, I run it with “sudo”  prefix.  As a result it starts with root user’s privileges.

 

But for another software module (Reviewboard), which is supposed to use apache web service, this is causing problems with respect to some file permissions.  When posted to their forum, they advised me to use the following command to start apache.

 

sudo service apache2 start|stop|restart

 

But the above command gives me errors, as below:

 

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rvnath@rvnath:~$ sudo service apache2 restart

/usr/sbin/apache2: symbol lookup error: /usr/sbin/apache2: undefined symbol: apr_os_uuid_get

Action 'configtest' failed.

The Apache error log may have more information.

   ...fail!

-----end-quote-------

 

Searching through various forums and groups didn’t help me much either.

 

My question is:

1.       What is the right way to start apache as a daemon service in UNIX (Ubuntu)?

2.       Finally, when httpd is run, does it run as “www-data” user, or some other user.  When I did a process grep (ps –ef | grep httpd), it shows me that it runs with a user name called “daemon” instead of www-data).  So, is it correct to say that apache runs as a “daemon” user and NOT www-data as claimed by Reviewboard forums?

 

Regards,

RV

 

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