Why can't I remove Apache?

Question

I installed a LAMP stack with the following commands:

$sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5
$sudo service apache2 restart
$sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql

Full instructions.

Anyway, I found that Apache isn't the most lightweight server out there, and I found Nginx. So, naturally, I tried uninstalling Apache:

$sudo apt-get purge apache2

I even tried stopping the service before and rebooting afterwards. It goes through the remove process fine, but the service stays there. If I run that command again, it will say that Apache is uninstalled. I've tried uninstalling all of these packages: apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5, but, whenever I reboot and go to my Pi's IP, I always get the Apache welcome file.

I then thought that it would be an issue of another web server was handling the Apache file. However, I can still stop the page from loading with sudo service apache2 stop. Why is this happening/how can I fix this?

Answer 1

Try sudo apt-get --purge remove apache2 and then sudo apt-get autoremove. I had that same thing with emacs due to it installing other dependencies. emacs would still be there after --purge remove. Autoremove helped removing the dependencies which were installed with emacs.

Answer 2

If these commands don't work:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5
$ sudo service apache2 restart
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php5-mysql  

Try this:

$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php
$ sudo service apache2 restart
$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client php-mysql