21/01/10

  Assuming apache/bin is in your PATH, some commands:

  httpd -l 
    to see what modules have been statically-compiled
    (To see which have been dynamically-compiled, look in
    apache/modules directory. But they also need to be
    loaded: see httpd.conf)

  apachectl start
  apachectl stop
  apachectl graceful-stop
  apachectl restart
  apachectl graceful
    
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  When we build Apache from source, we get a default set of
  modules, and they're statically-compiled.

  We can statically-compile extra modules or exclude modules.

  E.g. to build a static server (no dynamic modules, and not
  even the ability to have dynamic modules, hence excluding
  mod_so), which has all the default modules except mod_userdir 
  and which additionally includes mod_ssl:

  configure --prefix=..... --disable-so --disable-userdir --enable-ssl

  We can dynamically-compile modules (provided mod_so has been
  statically-compiled) by specifying =shared

  E.g. to build a dynamic server with all the 
  statically-compiled default modules (which includes 
  mod_so) but with mod_info and mod_status dynamically-
  compiled:

  configure --prefix=.... --enable-info=shared --enable-status=shared

  (Note that mod_info is a default module and hence 
  ordinarily it is statically-compiled; and mod_status is 
  not a default module and hence ordinarily is not 
  compiled at all)