On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 23:40, Michael Durket <dur...@highwire.stanford.edu> wrote: > Based on the few books that describe Apache module writing and a presentation > that I've found on the web from an Apache conference, the advice to module > writers is to remember that Apache calls the post-config phase twice - once > while it's checking its configuration files, and then when it's ready to > start up > it discards all that and calls post-config again to really set things up. > > But it appears to me (via tracing I've done in my own module) that post-config > is actually called once at configuration file checking time, and then once per > server process start (we're using MPM here) during the second (actual Apache > startup phase). > > Is this correct?
No. It's done twice, before forking the children. The post_configs run as the user who launched apache (typically root), before the sever switches to the user/group specified in the corresponding configuration directives. Have a look in server/main.c in the sources of apache. Sorin
