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Starting and Stopping the HTTP Daemon

The Apache installation process in the ports collection will start the server automatically. You can verify this by looking for httpd processes using ps and grep:

# ps -waux | grep httpd
root     220  0.0  2.0  4436 2456  ??  Ss  Sat02PM  0:02.79
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody   303  0.0  2.0  4496 2548  ??  I   Sat02PM  0:00.01
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody   304  0.0  2.0  4460 2452  ??  I   Sat02PM  0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody   305  0.0  2.0  4460 2452  ??  I   Sat02PM  0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody   306  0.0  2.0  4460 2452  ??  I   Sat02PM  0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody   307  0.0  2.0  4460 2452  ??  I   Sat02PM  0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd
nobody 13963  0.0  2.0  4468 2468  ??  I   Sat10PM  0:00.00
/usr/local/sbin/httpd

Note that Apache uses ...