{"id":3342,"date":"2021-10-23T06:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T06:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2021-10-23T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:30:25","slug":"how-to-restart-apache-to-make-httpd-conf-changes-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownwebservers.com\/kb\/how-to-restart-apache-to-make-httpd-conf-changes-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"How to restart Apache to make httpd.conf changes permanent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When cPanel is updated or Httpd service is restarted using WHM, the custom changes created within the Apache configuration file directly will not work as a result of cPanel looks the new values within the file <strong>\/var\/cpanel\/conf\/apache\/local<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, you&#8217;ll be able to still make the changes directly within the Apache configuration and run the subsequent distiller commands to save the changes. 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