Weird, because I'm tracing the entry to post-config in my code and the second phase seems to be called 8 times which on my system is the value listed in the StartServers directive.
On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Sorin Manolache wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 23:40, Michael Durket > <dur...@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: >> Based on the few books that describe Apache module writing and a presentation >> that I've found on the web from an Apache conference, the advice to module >> writers is to remember that Apache calls the post-config phase twice - once >> while it's checking its configuration files, and then when it's ready to >> start up >> it discards all that and calls post-config again to really set things up. >> >> But it appears to me (via tracing I've done in my own module) that >> post-config >> is actually called once at configuration file checking time, and then once >> per >> server process start (we're using MPM here) during the second (actual Apache >> startup phase). >> >> Is this correct? > > No. It's done twice, before forking the children. The post_configs run > as the user who launched apache (typically root), before the sever > switches to the user/group specified in the corresponding > configuration directives. > > Have a look in server/main.c in the sources of apache. > > Sorin
