Those with logins to larousse can if need be restart Apache with these
handy dandy aliases:
apache-start
apache-stop
apache-restart
apache-graceful
A 'graceful' restart reloads the configuration file and kills off all
server threads once they've finished the current request; new requests
are served by new threads with the new configuration. Every once in a
while it may not be enough; for instance, changes to the PHP
configuration don't seem to get reloaded by this, or the httpd process
may be in a zombie-like undead state where it just doesn't respond.
A regular restart (or stop followed by start) will interrupt any
connections currently trying to transfer data, but may be more thorough
about reloading things.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)