Gracefully Restart Lighttpd Web Server

To gracefully restart the Lighttpd web server, you can use the lighttpd command with the -s option and the graceful-restart argument.

Here’s the command you can use:

When you run this command, Lighttpd will reload its configuration and gracefully restart the server. This means that any active connections will be allowed to finish, while new connections will use the new configuration.

Note that you need to have superuser privileges (i.e., run the command with sudo) to gracefully restart the server.

Alternatively, you can use the -p option to specify the path to the configuration file, like this:

This command assumes that your Lighttpd configuration file is located at /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf.

Once you have restarted the server, you can check the server’s status to verify that it’s running and serving requests as expected. You can do this by accessing your web server using a web browser or by using a tool like curl to send a request to the server.