restart httpd service? 1

[fluid11]

I just installed Apache on a Red Hat server. I instructed the web designer to copy the website to the appropriate location (/usr/local/apache/htdocs/) on the server via Samba or FTP. The question is, does the httpd service need to be restarted everytime changes are made?

In the future, when I figure out how to install the FrontPage Extensions, he's going to use FrontPage to edit the website. I'm not that familiar with how this works, but will the service need to be restarted whenever a change is made via FrontPage?

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

You have the correct idea but the wrong situtaion..

If your website is updated then no, you do not have to restart the server but if your httpd.conf file is updated then you do need to restart for the changes to take effect.

Hope this helps Wullie

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[fluid11]

If I have a website in the htdocs folder, and then I delete it and add a completely different website to the folder, I don't have to restart the service? When a user goes to the website via a web browser it will be automatically updated?

Thanks.

 

[Wullie]

No, you do not have to restart apache in this case.

Think of it another way, if you had to restart apache after every change to a website then every time that someone visited a page with a hit counter you would need to restart the server which is not practical.

You only need to restart apache if you alter the httpd.conf file.

Hope this helps Wullie

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[fluid11]

Cool, thanks. I'm glad to hear it because it would be a real pain restarting the service everytime the web designer changes the site.