The acronym LAMP refers the components of the solution stack composed entirely of free and open-source software as follows:
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Difficulty | Easy (rss) |
Root privileges | No |
Requirements | Apache/Bash/Ksh/Tcsh |
Time | 2m |
- L for Linux operating systems
- A for Apache http web server
- M for MySQL or MariaDB database management server
- P for PHP, Perl, or Python scripting languages
Task: Show Apache httpd web server version command
httpd is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program. In order to find out apache version login to server using ssh or console. Once logged in type the following command to print the version of httpd, and then exit:
# httpd -v
Sample output:
Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Server built: Oct 28 2008 07:22:45
Task: Output a list of modules compiled into the server:
# httpd -l
This will not list dynamically loaded modules included using the LoadModule directive. To dump a list of loaded Static and Shared Modules:
# httpd -M
Sample output:
Loaded Modules: core_module (static) mpm_prefork_module (static) http_module (static) so_module (static) auth_basic_module (shared) auth_digest_module (shared) authn_file_module (shared) authn_alias_module (shared) authn_anon_module (shared) authn_dbm_module (shared) authn_default_module (shared) authz_host_module (shared) authz_user_module (shared) authz_owner_module (shared) authz_groupfile_module (shared) authz_dbm_module (shared) authz_default_module (shared) ldap_module (shared) authnz_ldap_module (shared) include_module (shared) log_config_module (shared) logio_module (shared) env_module (shared) ext_filter_module (shared) mime_magic_module (shared) expires_module (shared) deflate_module (shared) headers_module (shared) usertrack_module (shared) setenvif_module (shared) mime_module (shared) dav_module (shared) status_module (shared) autoindex_module (shared) info_module (shared) dav_fs_module (shared) vhost_alias_module (shared) negotiation_module (shared) dir_module (shared) actions_module (shared) speling_module (shared) userdir_module (shared) alias_module (shared) rewrite_module (shared) proxy_module (shared) proxy_balancer_module (shared) proxy_ftp_module (shared) proxy_http_module (shared) proxy_connect_module (shared) cache_module (shared) suexec_module (shared) disk_cache_module (shared) file_cache_module (shared) mem_cache_module (shared) cgi_module (shared) version_module (shared) chroot_module (shared) perl_module (shared) php5_module (shared) proxy_ajp_module (shared) python_module (shared) Syntax OK
Print the version and build parameters of httpd, and then exit
Type the command:
# httpd -V
Sample output:
Server version: Apache/2.2.3 Server built: Oct 28 2008 07:22:45 Server's Module Magic Number: 20051115:3 Server loaded: APR 1.2.7, APR-Util 1.2.7 Compiled using: APR 1.2.7, APR-Util 1.2.7 Architecture: 64-bit Server MPM: Prefork threaded: no forked: yes (variable process count) Server compiled with.... -D APACHE_MPM_DIR="server/mpm/prefork" -D APR_HAS_SENDFILE -D APR_HAS_MMAP -D APR_HAVE_IPV6 (IPv4-mapped addresses enabled) -D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE -D APR_USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZE -D SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -D APR_HAS_OTHER_CHILD -D AP_HAVE_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS -D DYNAMIC_MODULE_LIMIT=128 -D HTTPD_ROOT="/etc/httpd" -D SUEXEC_BIN="/usr/sbin/suexec" -D DEFAULT_PIDLOG="logs/httpd.pid" -D DEFAULT_SCOREBOARD="logs/apache_runtime_status" -D DEFAULT_LOCKFILE="logs/accept.lock" -D DEFAULT_ERRORLOG="logs/error_log" -D AP_TYPES_CONFIG_FILE="conf/mime.types" -D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="conf/httpd.conf"
To view other configuration settings open httpd.conf file (usually located in /etc/httpd directory). Red hat, CentOS and Fedora stores httpd at the following location:
# vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Debian and Ubuntu stores httpd.conf in apache2.conf file at the following location:
# vi /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
FreeBSD stores apache2.2 configuration at the following location:
# vi /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf
If you made any changes to httpd.conf, check httpd syntax for error using the -t option:
# httpd -t
If there are no errors, simply restart Apache web server.
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Very complete post. I’ll keep it as a quick reference just in case i have to admin any of these systems.
Good post. This is good to keep in quick ref. book…
You can also get some basic info if you telnet the server on port 80 and then type
get / http/1.0
It doesn’t tell you everything but you can get the basics.
//G
Sorry, its
head / http/1.0
//G
@The above post: If you don’t want an error message, do it like this:
$ telnet http://www.somesite.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.somesite.com
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Jeff Schroeder
http://www.digitalprognosis.com
This is much easier for fingerprint remote web server
curl -I http://example.com/
hi, i am using apache version 2.2.3, before this the server is using public IP, then we decide to put it behind firewall and map the local IP. So, once we change the server’s IP address to local, we are unable to open the website, just the front page of apache. I think it was no issue with firewall because when we ping the public IP and can remote the server. Please help anyone…
good tutorials.
Exactly what I was looking for, cheers!
Hi ,
How can we check loaded modules version?
Thanks,
Bipin Bahuguna
This didn’t work for me, but
did
It is
apachectl -v
Thanks, this post is extremely helpful
Thanks. Just what I needed.
The simple command helps me a lot. Thank you!
Actually, the very easiest way to determine what version of Apache you are running is to request a nonexistent page.
Well done for newbies like i.
Thanks
How to find out the VERSIONS of the loaded modules in Apache 2.x in CentOS 6.x is something that has been eluding me for a while. I don’t want to know which modules are loaded – I want their versions. HOW do I find out?
You can’t. Almost all modules are bundled and compiled for same version i.e. httpd version is 2.2.15 is same for all loaded modules.
HTH
I would like to know how to check the version of apache in hp-ux. Thank you.
what if httpd is not in your path?