This feature is experimental: expect things to break and documentation to be innacurate and change inadvertantly. Use at your own risks.
Apache Official documentation
Notes
For better user experience you may prefer the use of the reload task instead of restart.
Commands
- devops apache start
- Start Apache if stopped
- devops apache stop
- Stop Apache if started
- devops apache reload
- Reload Apache, reload the configuration and perform a graceful restart
- devops apache restart
- Restart Apache, reload the configuration (but kills existing connection)
Configuration
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configuration:
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apache:
- event:
- group: www-data
- keepalive: true
- keepalivetimout: 5
- maxkeepaliverequests: 100
- prefork:
- timeout: 300
- user: www-data
- worker:
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apache:
- event.maxclients integer
- Maximum number of simultaneous client connections
- Default:
150 - event.maxrequestsperchild integer
- Maximum number of requests a server process serves.
- event.maxsparethreads integer
- Maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare.
- Default:
75 - event.minsparethreads integer
- Minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare,
- Default:
25 - event.startservers integer
- Initial number of server processes to start.
- Default:
5 - event.threadlimit integer
- ThreadsPerChild can be changed to this maximum value during a graceful restart. ThreadLimit can only be changed by stopping and starting Apache.
- Default:
64 - event.threadsperchild integer
- Constant number of worker threads in each server process.
- Default:
25 - group string
- Apache running group.
- Default:
www-data - keepalive string
- Whether or not to allow persistent connections.
- Default:
true - keepalivetimout integer
- Number of seconds to wait for the next request from the same client on the same connection.
- Default:
5 - maxkeepaliverequests integer
- The maximum number of requests to allow during a persistent connection.
- Default:
100 - prefork.maxclients integer
- Maximum number of server processes allowed to start.
- Default:
150 - prefork.maxrequestsperchild integer
- Maximum number of requests a server process serves.
- Default:
4000 - prefork.maxspareservers integer
- Maximum number of server processes which are kept spare.
- Default:
10 - prefork.minspareservers integer
- Minimum number of server processes which are kept spare.
- Default:
2 - prefork.startservers integer
- Number of server processes to start.
- Default:
5 - timeout integer
- The number of seconds before receives and sends time out.
- Default:
300 - user string
- Apache running user.
- Default:
www-data - worker.maxclients integer
- Maximum number of simultaneous client connections
- Default:
150 - worker.maxrequestsperchild integer
- Maximum number of requests a server process serves.
- worker.maxsparethreads integer
- Maximum number of worker threads which are kept spare.
- Default:
75 - worker.minsparethreads integer
- Minimum number of worker threads which are kept spare,
- Default:
25 - worker.startservers integer
- Initial number of server processes to start.
- Default:
5 - worker.threadlimit integer
- ThreadsPerChild can be changed to this maximum value during a graceful restart. ThreadLimit can only be changed by stopping and starting Apache.
- Default:
64 - worker.threadsperchild integer
- Constant number of worker threads in each server process.
- Default:
25