At 07:18 AM 5/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Good Day all -
>
>A quickie question for you all. What is the quickest way to restart the
>Apache http daemon and respawn all the daughters once a change to the
>httpd.conf has been made? I am adding some virtual www hosts and want to
>restart the daemon as well as the spawns so this becomes effective.
Well, there's a couple ways to do it. The Apache folk recomend you
use your httpd.pid file (mine is /var/run/httpd.pid) and send a HUP
to the parent pid. So, for me, I use
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid` (yes, with the ` in there)
and it restarts all happy like. I -think- there's a signal that you
can send to the parent that will cause the children to finish processing
requests before they are restarated, but I don't remember which one.
You should be able to find that info at www.apache.org.
Oh, another way to restart Apache is to use the RedHat supplied
script in /etc/rc.d/init.d called httpd. The syntax would be
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
That assumes that you're using the RPM from RedHat for Apache
and/or have hacked the Apache source to make it work correctly
(or have modified the script).
Those are probably the two easiest ways, but I lean towards the
first way at the recommendation of the Apache group.
>Thanks in advance
>Michael Weiner
>The UserFriendly Network
Mike
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