How to permanently stop Apache in Droplet

Posted on August 29, 2020

I’ve Ubuntu Droplet and want to use as Mysql server. SO I’ want to remove Apache2. With earlier provider Linode, there was some settings that if Apache or Mysql ever stopped it’d automatically restart the VPS.

Is there something like this here?

Can I go ahead and remove the Apache2( on Ubuntu 14)?

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KFSys

August 29, 2020

Hi @stonepuma,

You can remove the Apache service without a problem. Please bear in mind this can break your website if you have any hosted on the droplet. If you are going to use it just for MySQL then it should be okay.

To remove or rahter would I say stop Apache2 from your ubuntu server, you can type in the following command

systemctl stop [servicename]
systemctl disable [servicename]
rm /etc/systemd/system/[servicename]
rm /etc/systemd/system/[servicename] # and symlinks that might be related
rm /usr/lib/systemd/system/[servicename] 
rm /usr/lib/systemd/system/[servicename] # and symlinks that might be related
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl reset-failed

Alternatively, you can remove it directly with apt-remove.

Regards, KFSys

Janusz Szeligowski

August 29, 2020

Hi,

Removing Apache2. I do not recommend removing packages related to Apache2. There may be some dependencies between packages which may not be correctly followed by package manager during removal process. It may end in system malfunction. Preventing Apache2 service from automatic start seems to be better solution. So first, stop apache2 service

sudo service apache2 stop

and then, disable its automatic start when system starts

sudo update-rc.d apache2 disable

Restarting a droplet when particular service is stopped. I do not know if DO droplets have this feature. Anyway, you could configure it using bash script and cron, if such solution would satisfy you.

BTW, you asked a question related to unsupported version of Ubuntu. Ubuntu 14 reached its end of life in April 2019. So, my advice is to migrate to the most current version ASAP.