How to Change the Process Owner of the Apache httpd in RHEL?

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Issue

  • How to change the Apache httpd user in RHEL?
  • How to change the process owner of the Apache httpd user in RHEL?
  • How to run Apache httpd at boot time as a non-root user?
  • How to change Apache httpd's parent process to a non-root user?

  • Facing below errors in logs:

    $ /usr/sbin/httpd -k start
(13)Permission denied: AH00058: Error retrieving pid file /run/httpd/httpd.pid
AH00059: Remove it before continuing if it is corrupted.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
  • Apache Web Server (HTTPD)

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