Re: is httpd a valid way to start Apache?

[Greg Ames]

Joshua Slive wrote:
> 
> On 16 May 2002, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> 
> > Who would be in favor of this, or parts thereof?  I'm anxious to see a
> > consensus so that steps toward the goal can be filled in over time.
> 
> +1 That looks good to me.  Really, I have no particular problem with httpd
> being the wrapper script, but it would certainly cause more disruption to
> existing setups.
> 
> A couple points of clarification:
> 
> - I think I would recommend a "This is deprecated" message for the
> non -k options so that they don't need to be documented and supported
> indefinitely.  Then we can make it clear that there is only one true set
> of command line options and they apply both to apachectl and httpd.
> 
> - httpd -k restart and httpd -k graceful should do a config check before
> restarting and refuse to restart if the config is not valid.
> 
> Joshua.