Error 404 when running apachectl status

If you see Error 404 or "Object not found" when you run

$ /usr/sbin/apachectl status

in your terminal, it probably happens either because you do not have the module "mod_status" compiled with HTTP server or because the module simply is not loaded. First, you check the compiled modules by typing

$ /usr/sbin/apachectl -l | grep status

If you see mod_status.c, the module is compiled correctly. Then you check the configuration file to see if it is loaded. In "httpd.conf" file, I found that the following line is commented out and I changed it to be included.

# Real-time info on requests and configuration
Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf

I also modified the Allow directive in the file "httpd-info.conf", to allow only local access such as

Allow from 127.0.0.1

At last, the command apachectl status can give the following info

                       Apache Server Status for localhost

   Server Version: Apache/2.2.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.6 OpenSSL/0.9.8b DAV/2
   PHP/5.2.4 SVN/1.4.5

   Server Built: Oct 9 2007 10:27:16

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   Current Time: Tuesday, 15-Jan-2008 16:25:12 PST

   Restart Time: Tuesday, 15-Jan-2008 16:23:39 PST

   Parent Server Generation: 0

   Server uptime: 1 minute 33 seconds