[mapserver-users] Re: Reloading MapCache configuration file on changes?

[thomas bonfort]

AFAIK, this isn't possible. Inside an apache module, the configuration
is considered read-only as it is shared between multiple worker
threads/processed spawned by httpd.

apachectl configtest && apachectl graceful will restart the server
gracefully, i.e. without aborting ongoing requests, and will load the
new configuration for subsequent requests.

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thomas

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 23:37, John Taranu
<jtaranu at firstbasesolutions.com> wrote:
> Thomas,
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> Is there a better way force MapCache to reload its configuration script than
> restarting apache?  I’m working on an application that will use two
> load-balanced web servers running MapCache, all pointing to a single central
> tile repository and a single central .xml configuration file.  The
> configuration file will occasionally be edited, either with deletions or
> additional tilesets.  Both web servers need to reload the updated
> configuration .xml.
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> Is it possible to set up MapCache to check if the config file was recently
> updated and, if so, reload the config .xml?  It looks like this is currently
> enabled under FastCGI, but not under Apache.
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> John