starting apachectl from bash

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

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 2

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