Go have a read of:
http://www.fmc-modeling.org/category/projects/apache/amp/Apache_Modeling_Project.html
It goes into quite a lot of details of how the internals of Apache
works. It includes lots of pretty pictures of how all the phases and
hooking functions for this sort of thing relate to each other and when
they are triggered.
Graham
On 03/08/07, Farokh Irani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Aug 1, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Farokh Irani wrote:
> >
> >>I must just be dense, but I've spent a whole bunch of time trying
> >>to figure exactly how I can put initialization code into my module.
> >>It's code that needs to run only once when apache (2.2.x) is
> >>starting up, so any pointers would be appreciated.
> >
> >oops, incomplete answer:
> >
> >static int your_routine(apr_pool_t * p_conf, apr_pool_t * p_log,
> >apr_pool_t * p_temp);
> >
> >/* register our interests */
> >static void hooks(apr_pool_t * p)
> >{
> > ap_hook_pre_config(your_routine, NULL, NULL, APR_HOOK_MIDDLE);
> > ...
> >}
> >
> >module AP_MODULE_DECLARE_DATA atom_module = {
> > STANDARD20_MODULE_STUFF,
> > NULL, /* create per-directory config structure */
> > NULL, /* merge per-directory config structures */
> > NULL, /* create per-server config structure */
> > NULL, /* merge per-server config structures */
> > directives, /* handle config directive */
> > hooks /* registrar */
> >};
>
> OK, thanks for that tidbit. However, as someone else mentioned, if I
> need to do something when apache is restarted, will this do the trick?
>
> Also, when apache is shutting down, can my module do clean up and how
> do I handle that?
>
> Thanks!
> --
>
> Farokh
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