Centos – Setting Server Variables before Apache Loads

You could write a shell script to set the variable and then run wine.

On my system I just edited the /etc/sysconfig/httpd file to enable the httpd.worker.

After restarting httpd, I ran "ps -ef | grep -i http" and got this:

[root@localhost httpd]# ps -ef | grep -i http
root     16334 17289  0 10:44 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i http
root     30536     1  0 10:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd.worker
apache   30539 30536  0 10:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd.worker
apache   30541 30536  0 10:00 ?        00:00:02 /usr/sbin/httpd.worker
[root@localhost httpd]# 

If I switch the /etc/sysconfig/httpd back to the default, the ps output is like this:

[root@localhost httpd]# ps -ef | grep -i http
root     16447     1  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16448 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16449 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16450 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16451 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16453 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16454 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16455 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
apache   16456 16447  0 10:47 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
root     16458 17289  0 10:47 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i http
[root@localhost httpd]# 

And in this case the "httpd -V" output is the same as before.

Since the number of running processes matches my configuration options for the prefork and worker modules set in the "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" I believe it's working as advertised.

I suspect the "httpd -V" is reporting the compiled in defaults. because: server binary names are different. httpd (prefork,default) != httpd.worker (non-default)

Dan