Re: Odd difference between "restart" and "stop - start".

["Perrin Harkins" <suppressed>]

On 6/8/07, Krist van Besien <suppressed> wrote:
> When I then set SWITCH to "test" and do a server restart, using
> httpd -k restart
> I get the following output:
> "backend url is http://testserver:8080/app";
> but, and this is the odd thing, the server keeps forwarding requests
> to the production server. I exepcted it to start redirecting to the
> test server.
>  From the output I get it is obvious that the perl section gets
> executed. But it is as if the @perlconfig that is created is ignored
> during a restart.

The problem is that the perl interpreter doesn't actually get shut
down and replaced by a new one if you do a restart.  That's why you
need to fully stop and start the server when using mod_perl.

- Perrin