On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Bryan McQuade <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I have read the docs but I have a few questions regarding server > reloads. Under what conditions will httpd reread its conf file? Will httpd > also reload its shared modules when updating conf files? I am trying to make > sure that updating a conf and corresponding so on disk with a newer version > would not cause problems for a running httpd instance. Are there cases where > it is dangerous to install a newer version of a so and conf file while httpd > is running?
The conf files will only be re-read on a graceful restart (or sending SIGUSR1 to the parent process, which is the same thing). You may want to verify this with others (or by a simple test), but iirc anything loaded with LoadModule or LoadFile is reloaded at the same time. Cheers Tom
