Hi i have a java application that starts/stops/restart Apache and it should also check for its status, so i have looked how checking for status of apache and it appears that you have to check for the state of the service, problem is that when i use

apachectl start

the service httpd is still not started, is that normal ?

i check for the service state by doing

service httpd status

.

[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# /apps/apache/2.4.4/bin/apachectl start
httpd (pid 20502) already running
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# /apps/apache/2.4.4/bin/apachectl stop
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# /apps/apache/2.4.4/bin/apachectl start
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@lxrdcpsm ~]#