Hi all, I'm actually working on a application for generating dynamic virtual host and locations in these virtual host from a web interface. The purpose of this application is to give a non-administrator the possibility of adding on the fly virtualhost to a webserver without modifying httpd.conf and to add locations to a specific virtualhost.
So far I've manage to do the part of generating the httpd.conf file through <Perl> sections which takes all the necessary data from a MySQL server. The tricky part is to update the server configuration without having to restart the server. I've looked on the web and in the archives of the mailing list and found things about using the PerlInitHandler. I didn't tested it but I'm quite worried about the overhead of connecting to the database to check modification times of the virtual host entries. So my question would be : what will be the more efficient way to update my configuration against a database ? Thanks for answers and ideas, Regards, Mathieu ps: my configuration : apache 1.3.24/mod_perl 1.26 on a linux box.