Hi, Sorry for a late reply. --On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 11:09 PM +0200 Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ilker ARABACI wrote: > >> Is there any API used or on progress to get httpd global and >> configuration values on runtime, >> (not an httpd.conf file parser), something and more detailed like info >> module does, >> And also it would be more helpful to manuplate what will httpd act as >> without restarting nor reloading, >> to keep the active (unrelated to changes) sessions and connections up. > > Your questions raised a serious drawback of Apache: on-the-fly > administration/configuration. In my humble opinion, it's even the main > drawback of Apache (and the only thing that stands between Apache and > perfection). This is indeed correct. However, I have done some things with this by means of an SNMP module. This is a module (only 1.3) that allows you to manipulate some values directly without restarts. The only drawback is that you need to 'patch' the Apache core in order to get this done. This SNMP module can be found at http://snmp.cs.utwente.nl/software/packages/mod-snmp/ > > This is why the "revolution" will never happen, so your questions will > remain unanswerred forever. Maybe true, but there are ways around this. But it is also sad that people think this way. Harrie Hazewinkel SNMP Engineer Covalent Technologies, Inc. 645 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA - 94105 tel: +1-415-536-95221 fax: +1-415-536-5210
