What version of Linux are you using? On Centos (aka Redhat) we use service httpd reload. This reloads the config files without stopping and restarting apache.
Otherwise try Wil Genovese One man with courage makes a majority. -Andrew Jackson A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well. On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:30 PM, John G wrote: > I want to be able to add a new virtual host to Apache without > causing any disruption of service to the other web sites. Sending > the SIGUSR1 signal to the parent PID of Apache will cause it to do a > graceful restart which is mentioned in the Apache documentation as > doing the following: > > "The USR1 signal causes the parent process to advise the children to > exit after their current request (or to exit immediately if they're > not serving anything). The parent re-reads its configuration files > and re-opens its log files. As each child dies off the parent > replaces it with a child from the new generation of the > configuration, which begins serving new requests immediately." > (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/stopping.html > ) > > > > > > > >> I dunno-- this seems pretty obvious to me, but if I understand you >> correctly >> you want to restart the Apache daemon WHILE it is serving a webpage? >> >> I don't think that is going to fly no matter how gracefully you do >> it. >> >> Perhaps if you explain for reasoning for this we can help. Are you >> trying >> to update the apache config and you want to restart in order for >> changes to >> take affect? >> >> ~Brad >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Can anyone shed some light on how I can get Apache to do a graceful >>> restart without causing a JRun Connector Protocol error. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318140 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
