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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca> on 2002/02/17 05:12:25 UTC
Re: virtual hosts - adding at runtime
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Kevin M. Shortt wrote:
> >
> > i tried reading docs, playing with it, but i can't make it to work.
> > can somebody sent me example(s) howto add virtual hosts at runtime,
> > without restarting apache. thxn...
>
> As far as I know this is not possible.
>
> The closest you can come is by doing a graceful restart.
> This will restart apache (which re-reads httpd.conf) without
> breaking any current connections.
>
> graceful restart can be done with the apachectl script:
> %%>apachectl graceful
Right. That is the best way for a relatively small number of vhosts. For
a large number of vhosts, see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/mass.html
Joshua.
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Re: virtual hosts - adding at runtime
Posted by Scott Jeffries <sj...@attbi.com>.
It can be done, last place I worked we did it using mod rewrite. The
vhost were maped to a text file and any changes to the text file would
be picked up by apache automatically, no restart needed.
Joshua Slive wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Kevin M. Shortt wrote:
>
>>>i tried reading docs, playing with it, but i can't make it to work.
>>>can somebody sent me example(s) howto add virtual hosts at runtime,
>>>without restarting apache. thxn...
>>>
>> As far as I know this is not possible.
>>
>> The closest you can come is by doing a graceful restart.
>> This will restart apache (which re-reads httpd.conf) without
>> breaking any current connections.
>>
>> graceful restart can be done with the apachectl script:
>> %%>apachectl graceful
>>
>
>Right. That is the best way for a relatively small number of vhosts. For
>a large number of vhosts, see:
>http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/mass.html
>
>Joshua.
>
>
>
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