HTTPDC(1) BSD General Commands Manual HTTPDC(1)NAMEhttpdc — Control program for the xs-httpd webserver
SYNOPSIShttpdc [-d rootdir] [-p pidfile] [-v] [command]
DESCRIPTION
‘httpdc’ is a program that lets you control the behaviour of the xs-httpd
daemon. With this program, you can retrieve its status, terminate the
webserver, restart it, etc.
Without any arguments, the program will start in interactive mode showing
a prompt in which you can issue multiple commands. If a command is given
on the command line, the program will execute that command and terminate
immediately when it is finished.
The following control commands are available,
?
help Gives a list of command and their meanings.
status Display the webserver's status. It checks whether the main daemon
is running and if the process group is still active. It also
displays the pid of the main process and the command that was
used to start the webserver.
stop Shutdown the webserver. It will only stop the main daemon: that
daemon will shut down its child processes before exiting.
kill Forcefully kills the webserver and all child processes. This
should only be used if a normal stop command isn't working or
doesn't respond fast enough.
restart
Shuts the webserver down, waits until it is completely dead and
then restarts it using the command line arguments that were used
last time it was started. If the daemon was not running, it will
print a warning and start it anyway.
reload This makes the webserver reload its global configuration files
(httpd.conf, mime.types and compress.methods). Note that this
will not redo the complete configuration; in particular this will
not create or terminate any new sockets that have been added to
or removed from the httpd.conf(5) - nor will it change the owner
(uid/gid) of running processes. In general it is better to use
restart to ensure that the complete new configuration has been
activated.
quit
exit Quits the control program. You may also press CTRL-D (or any
other key that means ‘end of input’) to quit the program.
SEE ALSOhttpd(1), httpd.conf(5)
The project homepage: http://www.xs-httpd.org/
xs-httpd/3.5 May 29, 1996 xs-httpd/3.5
