starting apachectl from bash - linux

Question

I am writing a bash file. I need to start apachectl from my bash file. so i wrote:
apachectl start
When I run it with root, an error occurred:
apachectl: command not found
I searched and I found that, I should be super user with su - not su
Now, I want to know:
why this error occurred?
How could i run it with su?

Answer 1

In shell scripts you should use full paths in order to execute command unless directory with executable already in $PATH.
For instance, find where apachectl binary is located:
which apachectl
or
whereis apachectl
and you will get something like:
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl
So, use that.

Answer 2

The command not found error is because "apachectl" is not in your path. Simply use the full path of the command, e.g.
/etc/init.d/apachectl start
If you get a permission denied error, then you need to run as a different user. That is a different problem though.

Answer 3

Use the find command to first locate apachecetl
find / -name apachectl
Then you can test it by running the status command (assuming this is the location from the find command)
/usr/local/sbin/apachectl status
Then you may need to restart apache if there's an issue
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart

Answer 4

It seems, that the command apachectl is not in your environments path. Locate the directory, where apachectl resides and add this to your PATH or start it with the full path. Most modern distributions use sudo to allow users gain elevated rights, so you should use sudo, if available to you.

Answer 5

Below command worked for me:
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl -kstart

Answer 6

The answer above helped me a lot but the commands should be:
sudo netstat -tanp
sudo ss -tanp 'sport = 80'
sudo apt-get remove lighttpd
sudo <path>/apachectl -kstart

Answer 7

First kill all httpd service using...
sudo killall -9 httpd
Second, find apachectl. Press ctrl+r into terminal enter a "apachectl" word To find the path of "apachectl".
After select:
sudo <path>/apachectl stop|start

Answer 8

This question is old but comes up in Google, so for future readers: Please notice on some distributions such as Debian it is a sudo-only command and trying to run it without sudo leads to the error: command not found. So in order to run it simply use sudo. Also if you want to know where the binary is located at too, the simplest way I recommend (if using APT) is:
$ dpkg -L apache2 | grep apachectl
/usr/sbin/apachectl
/usr/share/man/man8/apachectl.8.gz
As you see, it's under sbin which means is exclusive to admins space.

Answer 9

I had the same problem. You may run the following command first:
export PATH=$PATH:/sbin
Then use apachectl restart or etc.

Answer 10

well, it happens why you port be used now other service. for you know that
service is use write next comand of netstat:
sudo netstat -tanp.
if you wanna to know of port 8080 use next comand:
trong textsudo ss -ntlp 'sport = 80'.
in my case was run lighttpd so apply next comand:
sudo apt-get remove lighttpd.