Perhaps you can educate me on this one Peter. Why use apachectl at all?
You could write a script outside of the install, that centers around :
/path/to/httpd -f /path/httpd.conf.name -k [stop,start,restart]
-ds
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter N Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running multiple httpd daemons
On my server, I run the httpd daemon twice, using almost identical
httpd.conf files, one on the main port (the live server) and one on a
high numbered port (my working draft). Then I edit the
files/configuration of the working draft server, restarting it as
necessary. When all changes are in place, I rsync the working files
to the live files, update the live server's httpd.conf file (by
script, based on the working draft version) and restart the live
server.
This all works fine, but one issue I have is running multiple copies.
I do this by having two copies of apachectl with different
configuration. The problem is, apachectl is really part of the
apache install, and so any time it is upgrade, I need to grab a new
copy of apachectl and reconfigure the two different versions. In
fact, what I do is patch apacheclt by adding:
while [ $# -ne 0 ]
do
case "$1" in
--pidfile=*) PIDFILE=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
--httpd=*) HTTPD=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
--lynx=*) LYNX=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
--statusurl=*) STATUSURL=`echo "$1" | sed -e 's/^[^=]*=//'` ;;
*)
break
;;
esac
shift
done
after the configuration section, and having my own apachectl-live and
apachectl-work that just call apachectl with parameters.
Is there a better way to do this without patching or duplicating
apachectl, or alternatively, can I request that apachectl be modified
to support receiving parameters so that it doesn't need to be patched?
I use 1.3.x, but I checked the latest 2.x source and it looks like
apachectl still doesn't receive parameters, although it has a complex
data driven chunk of code to generate the config parameters so adding
the above code would require understanding that data driven stuff,
presumably not hard for whoever maintains it.
Thanks,
Peter.
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