How To un Install / remove the Apache Web Server on Ubuntu

The Apache HTTP server is the most widely-used web server in the world. It provides many powerful features including dynamically loadable modules.

Before we begin this tutorial, we should have a regular,non-root user with sudo privileges configured on the server. Additionally we will enable a basic firewall to block non-essential ports.

Stop apache2.

sudo service apache2 stop

Uninstall Apache2 and its dependent packages.

sudo apt-get purge apache2 apache2*

Use autoremove option to get rid of other dependencies.

sudo apt-get autoremove

Check whether there are any configuration files that have not been removed.

whereis apache2

If you get a response as follows apache2: /etc/apache2 remove the directory and existing configuration files.

sudo rm -rf /etc/apache2