Hi all,

I am new to this forum. This is my first post to introduce my self. I am udayakumar working as IS Engineer in product based company. I have configured Nagios, LDAP, FTP, NFS, Samba, Apache,DNS and DHCP servers.

I got one question in Apache. If in Apache server there are 10 web sites has been hosted. I have to add another site in it. After completing all configuration how can i restart the httpd service with out disturbing rest 10 sites. If i restart httpd service all the sites will go down and come again.

Thanks regards,
S.Udayakumar

If you just want to take into account the changes of your apache config file, you can reload the config on your live server

or on redhat it might be this (not sure)
This will not take your current web sites off line but just reload and apply the new config on the fly

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Reload will stop and start the service rt? The moment it is stopped all the sites will be down. is it possible to restart in different way?

-S.Udayakumar

I have renamed this thread to be more in line with the subject matter and have moved it to Linux-Server

Reload is the same as restart.Restart stops the service, and reload just reloads apache and recognize any changes you made to the httpd.conf.Thusly, reload is what you wanna do

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Hi,

You can use graceful to restart apache child processes when they are inactive.

Regards

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The previous replies are fine, but if you want to be more explicit:

The first command performs a config file syntax check. The second command allows (or tries to allow) client connections to complete before performing a restart.

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edit: bathory beat me to it.

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Hi all,
Thanks for all the replies. The info you have provided is very useful.

-S.Udayakumar