You merely need to change the path to your apachectl of your 2nd httpd in the init script. e.g. here I have a Fedora 3 where httpd was installed from an FC3 RPM # rpm -qf /etc/init.d/httpd httpd-2.0.52-3 In this init script a variable apachectl is set as # grep ^apachectl /etc/init.d/httpd apachectl=/usr/sbin/apachectl Unless you need very unusual starting parameters (e.g. -DSUEXEC or similar own extensions) I would say all you need to do is set the apachectl variable to point to your second apachectl beneath /usr/local It's probably safe to also change the paths of the following var definitions to refer to your other httpd # grep -B2 -A5 ^apachectl /etc/init.d/httpd # Path to the apachectl script, server binary, and short-form for messages. apachectl=/usr/sbin/apachectl httpd=${HTTPD-/usr/sbin/httpd} prog=httpd pidfile=${PIDFILE-/var/run/httpd.pid} lockfile=${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/subsys/httpd} RETVAL=0 Then reactivate through chkconfig (since you deleted the symlinks) # chkconfig --add httpd # chkconfig httpd on # chkconfig --list httpd and finally try to start your 2nd server # service httpd start Hope I haven't forgotten bits. -----Original Message----- From: Roger [mailto:roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 4:22 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] Running Apache 2.0.NN I recently installed the latest stable version of Apache onto my machine running Fedora Core Linux. I then had two versions of Apache running, i.e the one that comes with the Operating System by default and the latest version. To reduce conflicts i was doing : service httpd stop and then i would do : /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start. I have now disabled httpd permanently using : chkconfig --del httpd. what i would like is now to make sure that /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start , starts up automatically whenever i restart my machine, as i have disabled httpd, i dont want to start Apache Manually. Can someone please explain to me in clear steps as i am also new to Linux and am starting to really find my way around it. Thanks. Roger