On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:10 PM, <markus.k...@nokia.com> wrote: > Hi, > > what is the recommended way for a module to fail the start of Apache, if the > module cannot be started (e.g. due to a configuration problem)? >
It depends. If you know it has failed in a directive configuration handler, you can return a char* with an error message. httpd will print out the error message and exit. If you only know after parsing all the directives, and trying to combine them in module_init, you can simply exit(3). At this point, httpd is performing the initial parsing of httpd.conf, when httpd is running as a single process and thread. Cheers Tom
