How to reload apache configuration for a site without restarting apache

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I have edited the variable AllowOverride for one of my websites in sites-enabled directory  How  do I reload the new configuration without restarting apache  Is it possible

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other way is   sudo service apache2 reload

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Late answer here  but if you search  etc init d apache2 for  reload   you ll find something like this  do reload             if apache conftest  then                 if   pidofproc -p  PIDFILE  quot  DAEMON quot   gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1   then                         APACHE2 INIT MESSAGE  quot Apache2 is not running quot                          return 2                 fi                  APACHE2CTL graceful  gt   dev null 2 gt  amp 1                 return            else                 APACHE2 INIT MESSAGE  quot The apache2 DIR SUFFIX configtest failed  Not doing anything  quot                  return 2         fi    Basically  what the answers that suggest using init d  systemctl  etc are invoking is a thin wrapper that says   check the apache config if it s good  run apachectl graceful  swallowing the output  and forwarding the exit code   This suggests that  Aruman s answer is also correct  provided you are confident there are no errors in your configuration or have already run apachctl configtest manually  The apache documentation also supplies the same command for a graceful restart  apachectl -k graceful   and some more color on the behavior thereof

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Updated for Apache 2 4  for non-systemd  e g   CentOS 6 x  Amazon Linux AMI  and for systemd  e g   CentOS 7 x    There are two ways of having the apache process reload the configuration  depending on what you want done with its current threads  either advise to exit when idle  or killing them directly   Note that Apache recommends using apachectl -k as the command  and for systemd  the command is replaced by httpd -k  apachectl -k graceful or httpd -k graceful  Apache will advise its threads to exit when idle  and then apache reloads the configuration  it doesn t exit itself   this means statistics are not reset   apachectl -k restart or httpd -k restart  This is similar to stop  in that the process kills off its threads  but then the process reloads the configuration file  rather than killing itself   Source  https   httpd apache org docs 2 4 stopping html

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If you are using Ubuntu server  you can use systemctl systemctl reload apache2

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It should be possible using the command sudo  etc init d apache2 reload  I hope that helps

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Do   apachectl -k graceful   Check this link for more information   http   www electrictoolbox com article apache restart-apache

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