Lost httpd.conf file located apache

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Shalin Shah picture Shalin Shah · Aug 30, 2012 · Viewed 1.1M times · Source

How can I find where my httpd.conf file is located?

I am running an Ubuntu Linux server from the Amazon Web Services EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and I can't find my Apache config.

Answer

squiguy picture squiguy · Aug 30, 2012

Get the path of running Apache

$ ps -ef | grep apache
apache   12846 14590  0 Oct20 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache2

Append -V argument to the path 

$ /usr/sbin/apache2 -V | grep SERVER_CONFIG_FILE
-D SERVER_CONFIG_FILE="/etc/apache2/apache2.conf"

Reference:
http://commanigy.com/blog/2011/6/8/finding-apache-configuration-file-httpd-conf-location

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