Read configuration at runtime

[Delta Yeh]

Is it possible to add a management  interface in nginx to change the
config on the fly.
But how to deal with the  multiple worker process ,use share memory in
main process?


2008/8/27 Chris Savery <chrissavery at gmail.com>:
> What's going to change the config file and how often? If it's being updated
> by some other process or script then perhaps it's easier to just have that
> script send a signal to Nginx. Only case where this seems  like it wouldn't
> be workable is if you are updating these configs continuously and don't want
> Nginx reloading it's config every second or so. But I mean, if you're
> thinking that a config will change a few times a day or week then a scripted
> signal on change would give you the results you need.
> Chris :)
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> Jarod Belle wrote:
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> Igor Clark <igor at ...> writes:
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> Hi Jarod,
> If you mean in the way Apache reads .htaccess files, then as far as I
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> understand, there isn't really any support for this in nginx; it reads its
> config at startup, and as Andre says, you need to tell it to reload the
> config
> using a signal.
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> Cheers,
> Igor
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> On 26 Aug 2008, at 15:32, Andre Arnold wrote:
> Hi,kill -HUP `pidof nginx`http://wiki.codemongers.com/
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> NginxCommandLine#utnbotfBest regards 2008/8/26 Jarod Belle <jarodbelle-
> Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> Almir Karic <almir <at> ...>
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> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:58:14PM +0000, Jarod Belle wrote: > > I want to
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> make nginx to get different configurations dynamically at runtime. > > what
> is
> wrong with nginx -c /path/to/configuration/file.conf ? >
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> Excuse me, What I wanted to know is when nginx have been already running,
> how
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> to read any other configurations(such as different user's configuration) in
> the
> runtime. I think this need some ngx_http_module hacking, but I need some
> guide,
> since I'm not familiar enough with nginx's internal architecture. Thank you
> for
> your reply. :)
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> Yes, I mean it.
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> So sadly, but I really need to implement this function for some reason.
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> Is it possible that just do some hacking job on http moudle?
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> I have already read a part of nginx's source code, but still can not figure
> it
> out.
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