PidFile directive

Purpose

This directive is used only if ServerType is standalone.

Syntax

file is the name of the file to which the process id is logged. It is either a full pathname, or a partial pathname relative to ServerRoot.

Only one PidFile directive is allowed in the configuration file.

Default

PidFile logs/httpd.pid

Examples

This logs the process id to the file logs/pid in the ServerRoot directory.

TransferLog /tmp/httpd-pid

This logs the process id to the file /tmp/httpd-pid.

PidFile /dev/null

The server does not log its process id.

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