How To Start, Stop, and Restart Apache and MySQL on Ubuntu

In this tutorial we will cover how to start, stop and restart your Apache web server and MySQL db on Ubuntu. Since most Linux servers do not have a graphical user interface installed we will do the steps in a terminal.

In this tutorial I am working with Ubuntu 11.04 Server. If you are running Apache on your Ubuntu desktop these steps will work for you as well.

 

 

Apache:

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To Start Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start

 

 

 

 

 

To Stop Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop

 

 

 

 

To Restart Apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MySQL:

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To Start MySQL:

sudo start mysql

 

 

 

 

or

 

sudo service mysql start

 

 

 

 

or

(Note: Older Method)

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql start

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Stop MySQL:

sudo stop mysql

 

 

 

 

or

sudo service mysql stop

 

 

or 

(Note: Older Method)

sudo /etc/inid.d/mysql stop 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To Restart MySQL:

sudo restart mysql

 

 

 

 

or

sudo service mysql restart

 

 

 

 

or

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you found this helppful!