如何在centOS 7中启动Apache

Question

I was starting Apache using this command : service httpd start in centOS6

Today I did download centOS7-64bit-minimal and wanted to start Apache after installing this.
When I use service httpd start , os will show me a message says:

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start httpd.service

Should I use [root@localhost#] /bin/systemctl start httpd.service ??

I tried [root@localhost#] systemctl start httpd.service and it seems it's OK, but in the centOS6 , there was starting status with something like [OK] or [FAILED] after starting httpd or something like that, but in this version, there is no report...
Am I in right way?
Is httpd started correctly after this command :
[root@localhost#] systemctl start httpd.service ?

Thanks in advance...

Answer 1

you are doing it right. It sends your command to httpd service. You can use this command to see status of last command sent:

service httpd status

Answer 2

Welcome to Systemd! This has replaced service in recent Red Hat ilk, such as CentOS 7. You are on the right track with systemctl . Now, instead of checking logs in /var/log/messages/ , you use journalctl to view logs. To look at logs specific to “httpd”, you can look at the “unit” with:

journalctl -u httpd

Other useful things to do with journalctl :

alias jc='journalctl -xa'  # make a friendly alias for ease of typing
jc -f  # follow the current events

Answer 3

Triggering the httpd service start must be changed.. Suggested way:

systemctl start httpd.service

This would help in Linux EC2 instances.. Helped me though