thanks!
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bryan McQuade <bmcqu...@google.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Dennis. I'm wondering what it means for modules to handle
>> reloads correctly. What can/should a shared object do to gracefully
>> reload? What should it not do? Are there specific hooks I should
>> register for in order to handle reloads correctly? And if so, what
>> should my module do in those hooks?
>
> apachectl {graceful|restart} will cause your module to
>
> in the parent process:
> de-init (if you have cleanups registered on pconf), be unloaded, be
> loaded again, be re-initialized (pre-init hook, directive handling,
> post-config hook, etc.).
>
> (and just for giggles, this cycle even repeats during startup)
>
> in the child process:
> run any cleanups registered on pchild
>
> (this is approximate)
>
> look at
>
> server-bundled modules
> server/main.c -- the loop that repeats for every server generation
> (start/restart sequence)
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
>> <denni...@conversis.de> wrote:
>>> On 11/12/2010 03:04 PM, Tom Evans wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Bryan McQuade<bmcqu...@google.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi. I have read the docs but I have a few questions regarding server
>>>>> reloads. Under what conditions will httpd reread its conf file? Will
>>>>> httpd
>>>>> also reload its shared modules when updating conf files? I am trying to
>>>>> make
>>>>> sure that updating a conf and corresponding so on disk with a newer
>>>>> version
>>>>> would not cause problems for a running httpd instance. Are there cases
>>>>> where
>>>>> it is dangerous to install a newer version of a so and conf file while
>>>>> httpd
>>>>> is running?
>>>>
>>>> The conf files will only be re-read on a graceful restart (or sending
>>>> SIGUSR1 to the parent process, which is the same thing).
>>>>
>>>> You may want to verify this with others (or by a simple test), but
>>>> iirc anything loaded with LoadModule or LoadFile is reloaded at the
>>>> same time.
>>>
>>> I've had problems at times where when I installed an additional php
>>> extension and greacefully restarted Apache mod_php stoppen working properly.
>>> This is most likely a problem of mod_php and not Apache but you might take
>>> it into consideration that while Apache might reload it's modules these
>>> modules might not handle this properly.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dennis
>>>
>>
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