When you mean by hand, you mean something like: `/usr/sbin/httpd -k $action`
Where $action could be "stop" and then "start"? I don't think this is possible, I get permission denied on the socket: (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:55 -0400, Sean Davis wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:48 PM, xyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I've got a modperl app that changes some apache configs (via text > > files), but need to tell Apache to re-read its configuration files for > > the changes to take effect. What might be the best way of going about > > such an operation? > > > > Here is some info about my install: > > > > # cat /etc/redhat-release && rpm -qa httpd mod_perl > > CentOS release 4.6 (Final) > > httpd-2.0.59-1.el4s1.10.el4.centos > > mod_perl-2.0.3-1.el4s1.3 > > If you are doing this by hand, you will always want to stop and then > start the server, not restart. > > Sean