Configuration File of CERN httpd Configuration File of CERN httpdhttpd will translate a request into
a document name. The directives controlling
httpd features are also put into the
configuration file, as well as protection configuration.
This is essential to prevent unauthorized access to your
private documents. /etc/httpd.conf is
loaded, unless specified otherwise with the -r command line
option:
httpd -p 80 -r /your/own/httpd.confSee also example configuration files.
# are ignored, as are empty lines.
inetd), and modify the configuration file, send the
HUP signal to httpd to make it re-read the
configuration file. You can find out the process number from the pid file written by httpd, e.g.
> cat /server_root/httpd-pid
2846
> kill -HUP 2846
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You must specify the
configuration file as an absolute pathname for the -r option because
when the server is started in standalone mode it changes its current
directory to / so after startup it cannot reload
configuration files that were specified with relative filenames.
To make restarting easier httpd has a -restart
option, which will automatically send the HUP signal to
another httpd process. Important: To find out the
PidFile httpd will have to read the same
configuration file as the running httpd has, so you have
to specify the same -r options on the command line as
for the actual httpd, e.g.
> httpd -r /usr/etc/httpd.conf -restart
Restarting.. httpd
Sending..... HUP signal to process 21379
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