to have apache re-read the config, the other way is
/bin/kill -HUP `cat
and there's isn't a way for it to only reload the proxy changes or just
a part of the config and it is questionable why would apache have a way
to only reload a part of the config. No reason to support that.
HTH
Aman Rahej
Thanks Joost,
I am not so confident about "apachectl -k graceful". I was actually
referring to something within the Apache runtime. The parent process polls
the config files or a file with just proxy rules for changes and
communicates it to the child processes.
But since you have mentioned it,
> It would be nice to have Apache reload proxy rules at regular
> (configurable) intervals w/o the need to bounce the webserver.
apachectl graceful in the crontab?
> Another thing, I desire in mod_proxy is the ability to specify a Failover
> backend (remote) host, in case one host does not respon
