Checking your IBM HTTP Server version

At times, you might need to determine the version of your IBM® HTTP Server installation.

About this task

The following information describes how you can determine the IBM HTTP Server version and provides examples. The server versions that are provided in the output examples are not necessarily the versions that are distributed with WebSphere® Application Server.

Procedure

  1. Change to the bin directory under the installation root of the web server.
  2. Determine the name of the executable for the web server.
    • [z/OS]apachectl
  3. Issue the command with the -v option to display the version information.
    [z/OS] 
    ./apachectl -v

Results

[z/OS]If you use a JCL procedure to start the web server, the banner containing the version information, similar to the following banner, will appear in the Job Log. If you issued a command from the OMVS command line, this banner will follow the command on the OMVS screen.
  • For IBM HTTP Server for WebSphere Application Server on z/OS®:
    Server version: IBM_HTTP_Server/7.0.0.0 (Unix)
Server built: Aug 14 2008 12:16:41
    In this example an IBM HTTP Server for z/OS powered by Apache 2.0.47 is installed.
If you need to contact IBM Support about a problem with your web server for z/OS, use this banner to determine the "built" date for your z/OS web server and include this information in your problem report.