How to uninstall Apache2 on Ubuntu

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How do I uninstall Apache2 on ubuntu?
May 13, 2019 in Linux Administration by Laksha
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3 answers to this question.

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Hey @Laksha, execute the following commands:

$ sudo service apache2 stop
$ sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-common
$ sudo apt-get autoremove
$ whereis apache2
apache2: /etc/apache2
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2

answered May 14, 2019 by Hemant
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Follow these steps to remove the apache2 service using Terminal:

  1. First stop the apache2 service if it is running with: sudo service apache2 stop
  2. Now remove and clean up all the apache2 packages with:

    sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2.2-bin apache2-common
    //or 
    sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2-utils apache2-bin apache2.2-common
    
  3. Finally, run sudo apt-get autoremove just in case any other cleanup in needed

You can do the following two tests to confirm apache has been removed:

  1. which apache2 - should return a blank line
  2. sudo service apache2 start - should return apache2: unrecognized service
answered Dec 14, 2020 by Roshni
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apache2 is a meta package that just selects other packages. If you installed apache by installing that package, you just need to run this to clean up the automatically selected packages:

sudo apt autoremove

If that doesn't work, you might have installed one of the dependents manually. You can target all the apache2- packages from space and nuke the lot:

sudo apt remove apache2.*

For future reference, to find out which package a binary is from, you can run this:

dpkg -S `which apache2`

I'd expect that to come back with apache2.2-bin (at the time of writing).

answered Dec 14, 2020 by Gitika
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