SPUG: Apache and Modules

Colin Meyer cmeyer at helvella.org
Wed Jan 23 23:22:37 CST 2002


On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 08:31:56PM -0800, Chris Sutton wrote:
> I've been doing mod_perl stuff for quite a while and though I hate doing 
> this, the only way I've found to make sure Apache is running the correct 
> versions of perl code (using a cached version vs. one just loaded off disk) 
> is to restart the server.  Do a full stop and then start, not just HUP.
> 
> Not sure how this fits into what you are trying to do, but when weird stuff 
> starts happening between requests, I find its time to restart the server.

I wouldn't use it within a production environment, but Apache::Reload
can be very useful on your devel machine. It reloads modules that have
been modified, no server restart or even kill -1 necessary.
Apache::Reload is a replacement for Apache::StatINC.

> 
> Whenever I release development code to a production server, if it's mod_perl, 
> I always restart apache on the production machine.

Yup, that's the way to go.

Have fun,
-C.

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