John, On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 1:23 AM Rose, John B <jbr...@utk.edu> wrote: > > As always, a "thank you" to everyone that works on Apache. > > > Some background and resultant question ... > > > We had made some changes in the afternoon to some virtual host configs that > we intended to implement the next morning with a graceful restart of Apache. > > > That was going to be coordinated with a restart of php-fm which had to be > done before the graceful of Apache > > > Anyway, the next morning the sites utilizing PHP were getting a 503 error > before we restarted anything. It seems as though Apache must have implemented > the virtual host config changes sometime between the previous afternoon and > the next morning. But no one had manually done the graceful. > > > Does Apache do a "graceful" restart automatically over time? >
There is a possibility. If you are using MPM and have set a non-zero value for MaxConnectionsPerChild, this can happen. Once MaxConnectionsPerChild limit is reached, that child server will be terminated and a new one will be started. Do you have that in your config? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
