Restart Apache service

There are many ways to restart Apache service and this depends on your platform of choice and personal preferences

Command	Method and Applicable Platform
# systemctl restart httpd.service	Systemd. Ubuntu 16.10 and later, RedHat/CentOS 7 and later, `Fedora` and other platform with `systemd`
# service httpd restart	Platforms with `service` command. Normally a wrapper to `System V` init scripts or `systemd` commands.
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart	Older platforms with `System V` init scripts
# httpd -k restart	Apache's built-in command

Different platform might use different binary/script names such as apache, apache2, apachectl or apache2ctl

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