How do we restart apache...

Do you have apache installed? Perhaps you are using nginx?

Is this for a box on Forge? Or a local Homestead VM? If either, you're most likely using nginx, not Apache. Forge has a server restart functions available in the bottom-right of the "server details" screen. For Homestead (or any local vagrant VM) you just SSH into the box and do the restart. sudo service nginx restart

Please let us know which platform you're on. OS X and Linux have different ways of doing it.

Here's some examples

// Debian based releases (could also be httpd and you can also use /etc/init.d/ version)
sudo service apache2 status

// Other Linux ditros (CentOS I know uses this)
sudo /etc/init.d/httpd status

// Red Hat
sudo /sbin/service httpd status

// OS X
sudo apachectl status

Oops, I didn't notice that you had this tagged Forge. So, to restart nginx use the menu at bottom right on the Server Details screen. screenshot

Actually, if it's on Forge and he's changed php settings, he'll need to restart php5-fpm for changes to take effect.

sudo service php5-fpm restart

Pretty sure it uses FPM otherwise, I'm done with life :)

Well guys I don't know who I should thank here, appreciate all your help:) Probably I should've start with my direct problem, here it is: Yes, I'm on forge and what I'm trying to do is upload set of images. On my local homestead box it's perfect, but on forge I'm getting this error: 413 Request Entity Too Large. I went ahead and chaged php.ini setting upload_max_filesize then restarted nginx as @anaxamaxan suggested, but it didn't work out. what else should i try?

UPD: just tried

sudo service php5-fpm restart

didn't work out either. Probably wrong setting then

Did you make sure you also update your post_max_size directive too?

post_max_size is already pretty large - 8M. I made upload_max_filesize equal this value. I'm trying to upload only 1.5M

Found the solution - I needed to edit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and into the http context add the following directive

client_max_body_size 100M;

Yup, that would allow larger uploads. When making a thread, make sure you supply all the information for people to give you better answers :)

@andrew.malinnikov - Just to make sure it's clear, Forge uses:

• Nginx
• PHP-FPM

There's no Apache, so restarting Apache will never work :D

Nginx should be reloaded/restarted if any config changes in /etc/nginx are made.

sudo service nginx reload
sudo service nginx restart

PHP-FPM should be reloaded/restarted if any config changes in /etc/php5/fpm are made.

sudo service php5-fpm reload
sudo service php5-fpm restart

I think he realised that after posting :)

Yep, I did:) Thanks for the hint anyway!