Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/18/07 02:53

Aaron Gray wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems making Apache reload itself.
>
> I have tried a PHP exec calling a bash shell script that does a KILL -HUP on
> Apache to attempt to make it reload its configuration.
>
> The signal in the shell script works fine from root but will not work when
> called from PHP.
>
> Is there anyway to make Apache reload itself from PHP without having to
> doing a signal ?
>
> I am trying to do a configuration reload without requiring root.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Aaron
>
>

Your Apache user probably doesn't have the authority to do a kill. root
does (of course).

But you don't want to give the Apache user the kill authority, either.
It's a huge security risk.

Let's look at it another way. What problem are you trying to fix?

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