[H-GEN] libapache-mod-ssl & apache restart

[Mark Suter]

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Patrick,

> I've configured my machine with squirrelmail and libapache-mod-ssl.  This
> works fine, however for some reason I cannot connect to the server after a
> period of time, or following a reconnection and change of ip address of
> the server.

If you need to specify an IP address in your config (likely),
then you'll need to do something similar to the following to
update the config file (untested):

    old=$(cat /etc/ppp/last-ip-address)
    new=$(ifconfig ppp0 | perl -ne'/inet addr:(\S+)/ and print $1')
    echo $new > /etc/ppp/last-ip-address

    perl -i.bak -pe "s/$old/$new/g" /etc/apache/httpd.conf

> I've configured my ssl certificates so that I don't need to supply a
> passphrase when I start apache, and in my /etc/ppp/ip-up.d directory
> (pppoe) I've put a script which stops & starts apache like thus:
> 
> /etc/init.d/apache stop
> sleep 20
> /etc/init.d/apache start
> 
> This doesn't produce the desired result.  Is there something I'm missing,
> in relation to apache reloading details?

This is generally not the recommended procedure.  You will have a
lot more luck with:

    # apachectl configtest && apachectl graceful
    Syntax OK
    /usr/sbin/apachectl graceful: httpd gracefully restarted

Yours sincerely,

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