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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Nick De Decker <ni...@i-vision.be> on 2002/04/12 01:53:27 UTC

Disable a virtualhost

Hello,

Is it possible to stop a virtualhost from serving pages without having to
restart apache or adjust the configfile ?
So can i tell a running apache to enable/disable the serving of a specific
virtualhost ?

Regards,
Nick De Decker



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Re: Disable a virtualhost

Posted by Nick De Decker <ni...@i-vision.be>.
Ok thanks, just what i needed .


----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Boyle" <ob...@bourse.ch>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: Disable a virtualhost


> Nick De Decker wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is it possible to stop a virtualhost from serving pages without having
to
> > restart apache or adjust the configfile ?
> > So can i tell a running apache to enable/disable the serving of a
specific
> > virtualhost ?
>
> Reloading the apache config doesn't necessarily mean restarting. You can
> send the apache process a SIGHUP with the "graceful" argument to
> apachectl, i.e.
>
> # /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful
>
> This will not cause any existing connections to fail or running CGIs to
> stop - no users will notice anything...
>
> Rgds,
>
> Owen Boyle.
>
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Re: Disable a virtualhost

Posted by Owen Boyle <ob...@bourse.ch>.
Nick De Decker wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to stop a virtualhost from serving pages without having to
> restart apache or adjust the configfile ?
> So can i tell a running apache to enable/disable the serving of a specific
> virtualhost ?

Reloading the apache config doesn't necessarily mean restarting. You can
send the apache process a SIGHUP with the "graceful" argument to
apachectl, i.e.

# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl graceful

This will not cause any existing connections to fail or running CGIs to
stop - no users will notice anything...

Rgds,

Owen Boyle.

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Re: Disable a virtualhost

Posted by Ryan Thompson <ry...@sasknow.com>.
Nick De Decker wrote to users@httpd.apache.org:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to stop a virtualhost from serving pages without
> having to restart apache or adjust the configfile ?

> So can i tell a running apache to enable/disable the serving of a
> specific virtualhost ?

I don't think you can disable this at the Apache level without
altering the config and at least doing a graceful restart.

Someone else already suggested revoking DNS. That is successful to a
point, but takes awhile to propagate.

My favorite method is just to disable their web directory (and
cgi-bin, if they have their own). Assuming you're under UNIX/Linux:

cd /home/user
chmod 000 cgi-bin public_html		# Revoke access
chown root:wheel cgi-bin public_html	# Revoke ownership

If the user owns their home directory, they can still unlink
public_html and re-create it. You have some choices as to how you
prevent that. Either revoke access to their entire home directory, or
disable their login/ftp account, etc.

Hope this helps,

- Ryan

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