RE: [TCLUG:9081] Apache authentication trouble

["Ben Beuchler" <insyte@emt-p.org>]

kill -USR1 `/var/run/httpd.pid`

Note that those little quotes are the backwards ones on the "~" key, not the
ones under your right pinky finger.  The -USR1 is preferrable to the more
traditional -HUP as it does a graceful shutdown of httpd with each child
process waiting until it is done with whatever it is doing at the moment
instead of just dropping everything and quitting.  Then the main (root?
parent?) httpd process rereads the httpd.conf file and recreates the
children with the new configuration.

Having said all of that, it suddenly occurs to me that I didn't read your
question that closely.  I hope that's what you were asking!

Ben


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Glaser [mailto:jurupari@geocities.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 8:12 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:9081] Apache authentication trouble
>
>
> > Please forgive the obvious suggestion, but did you restart Apache after
> > changing the config files?
> >
> > -Tim
>
> ahhh, sure I can...
>
> Actually that seems to be part of the problem. I wasn't sure if I
> needed to do such a thing or not. A few times I just rebooted the
> server, but nothing seemed to change at all. Today when I booted up
> the RH system and tried to go to my home page, I was immediately
> greeted with a please authenticate form. I wasn't able to do so for
> some reason, but at least SOMETHING happened!
>
> I feel like tinkering with it somemore. Can you tell me how I can
> shutdown/startup my server without having to reboot my system?
>
> Also, could you explain the difference between MD5 encryption of my
> password list over 'standard' encryption?  I noticed some mention of
> that in the htpasswd executable. What happens when both Windows and
> linux users try to access a secure page? How do I use the password
> file in such a case??  Can I use different encryption for different
> users within the same password file?
>
>
> Thank-you,
> Mike
>
>
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