Joost de Heer wrote: >>> That could be external to httpd. Just have a monitor (or in cfengine, >>> or whatever) that when the config changes it issues a graceful restart. >>> Simple and straight-forward. > > > Oops, I made a typo, and pressed save..... poof there goes my website! > > IMO, it's a bad idea to automagically restart when the config changes.
Not necessarily. For instance, the FreeBSD port installs a wrapper script that checks the validity of the config files before allowing a (re)start. It even uses httpd to do the check. So, as long as httpd uses its existing validity checker to decide whether or not to do an auto-restart your website should be fine. Of course, that doesn't really help much if you made a typo that results in a valid config, but there's nothing to stop that now either.
