3 Different Ways to Check Apache Version ?

By santosh

November 14, 2016


Are you curious about knowing which Apache version you are using for your website? You can leave all your worries and just follow my article to check Apache version from WHM, cPanel and Shell.

Apache Version From WHM
  • Login to your WHM. On the left menu bar search for “Server status” section under that select “Apache status“. Clicking on it will display the server version in the second line.

Here in the below image, you find the Apache version on the server is 2.4.23.

From Cpanel
  • Login to Cpanel on the left side under the “Statistics” section click on “Server Information“. Here you can see which version is running on the server.

The below image will show you the same.

From Shell
  • Log in as root to your server using SSH.
  • Type the below command to check the Apache version.
httpd -v or /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -v

Executing above commands will show you the result as below image.

Ever wonder what is Apache and why need to check Apache ?

Apache HTTP server is the world’s most used web server. Most of the web hosting providers use Apache as their web server. This is the reason 67% of web servers in the world use Apache as their web server. It is actively maintained by open community developers around the world and the last release is 2.4.13.

Advantages of using Apache

  • Good reliability and performance.
  • It is free and commercial friendly - no licensing fees or costs.
  • Probably runs on any OS (Linux, Windows)
  • Technical support resources for Apache are available on multiple websites around the world. Open source user community creates a patch to fix if it finds any new bug.

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