On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 18:33, Geoffrey Ducharme <geoffrey.ducha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I was reading the Red Book and something is not clear to me. Are the > authorization files for directory access loaded when Apache boots, or are > accessed every time a relevant request that needs authorization is submitted > to Apache? > > I'm asking this because we are going to support thousands of users with our > deployment. Authorization of users and repositories are likely to change > often and rebooting Apache would be a very painful operation and process.
They are read for each request. No Apache restart is required when changing user passwords or authorization rules.
