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aneuryzm
Asked: 2011-03-23 02:54:35 +0800 CST

Why does Apache start automatically?

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I've some issues with my webservers Apache and lighttpd on Ubuntu 9.04.

I use lighttpd only and I've stopped Apache on Ubuntu, but for some reason since few days ago, Apache starts to run and I need to stop it in order to restart lighttpd.

What could be the reason ? Cron has nothing about this. And this issue started to exist just last week.

How can I disable Apache ?

thanks

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can always uninstall Apache with sudo apt-get remove apache2 - though it's likely that it's been re-added to update-rc.d - You can remove it with sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 remove This will remove it from start up.

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  2. Use ps aux | grep apache when it's running and see which command started it. ls -l /etc/logrotate.d/ and check for an apache file. It is possible as the comment by @Lekensteyn mentioned that it exists but it should be checking for an apache PID before trying to reload.

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