Edit httpd while running

[optimised]

Hello,

I have httpd and named running. If I want to edit the httpd to add a new vhost and named.conf to add new domain which also requires a new zone file, do I have to shut down both services? Or what is the process to updating services to recognise new additions or changes.

 

[Niclov]

Can edit the file while the apache process is still running. After you finish and save your changes, restart apache for them to take effect.

I'm not sure about named, likely the same thing though, since most programs only read their configuration files when they start.

 

[marsd]

pidof httpd | xargs kill -hup ; after edit
pidof named | xargs kill -hup ; after edit

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You can quite happily edit while the daemons are running because they would have read the config into memory when starting...

To effect config changes without explicitly restarting the servers you can do :

kill -HUP 'cat /usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.pid'

or even

killall -HUP httpd

This causes apache to close all client listener processes, close logs, re-read the config file, open logs & spawn new child listener processes. In effect it does an immediate restart.

named is similar - e.g. killall -HUP named

Regards

 

[optimised]

Thanks Folks,

Trying to work on my zone file to answer to domain name without the

http://www perfix

in browser. This zone file seems to be working with no errors but can't resolve domain without the

http://www prefix.

When I try to add a line such as
myhostman.com. IN A x.x.x66
I recieve error in log Ignoring out of zone data


$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.myhostman.com. hostmaster.myhostman.com. (
20010829; Serial
12H ; Refresh
1H ; Retry
2W ; Expire
1D ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns1.myhostman.com.
IN NS ns2.myhostman.com.
www IN A x.x.x.66
ftp IN A x.x.x.66
www IN A x.x.x.67
mail IN A x.x.x.67
IN MX 10 mail.myhostman.com.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You can just have a line like this :

IN A x.x.x.x <----
www IN A x.x.x.x

etc. - i.e. without a prefix to add to the domain name.

Rgds

 

[optimised]

Just for clarification
Do I leave the

http://www's

in as well or take them out like below.

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.myhostman.com. hostmaster.myhostman.com. (
20010829; Serial
12H ; Refresh
1H ; Retry
2W ; Expire
1D ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns1.myhostman.com.
IN NS ns2.myhostman.com.
IN A x.x.x.66
ftp IN A x.x.x.66
IN A x.x.x.67
mail IN A x.x.x.67
IN MX 10 mail.myhostman.com.

 

[ifincham]

You'd just add a line(s) like this ...

$TTL 86400
@ IN SOA ns1.myhostman.com. hostmaster.myhostman.com. (
20010829; Serial
12H ; Refresh
1H ; Retry
2W ; Expire
1D ) ; Minimum
IN NS ns1.myhostman.com.
IN NS ns2.myhostman.com.
IN A x.x.x.66 <----
www IN A x.x.x.66
ftp IN A x.x.x.66
www IN A x.x.x.67
mail IN A x.x.x.67
IN MX 10 mail.myhostman.com.

Rgdz

 

[optimised]

Thanks Ifincham but I have another domains zone file set up like that and it only answer's to the

http://www as

well.

Do I need to add anything to my vhost container?
or is the second

http://www causing

problems maybe..

NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44

<VirtualHost 111.22.33.44>
ServerName

http://www.domain.com

DocumentRoot /

http://www/domain

</VirtualHost>