[users@httpd] Night page

[RICARD Jasmine <RICARDJ@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

 

I'm new with Apache and been able to setup my Virtual host.  I have to redirect the http to a maintenance page everyday at 6PM and back to normal production (login htm page) every morning at 8AM.

 

What is the best way??

 

Yet I've created a httpd.conf file for production and another one for maintenance.  I have a script that change the httpd.conf file and then stop and start apache at 5 seconds interval.

 

So far everything went well but once, there was a user trying to connect while my script was running, it did the first part of the script (copy the httpd.conf file and then stop apache).  The last part of my script is to start apache with the copied httpd.conf but it just didn't occur, instead I got a daemon message as follow

 

"httpd (pid 1089608) already running"

 

There was no message in the error_log about apache not being able to start.

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks

 

 

Jasmine Ricard

Trainer / IT Tech specialist

Tel:  +1 (514) 874-0202 ext. 3475

Fax: +1 (514) 874-1699

ricardj@xxxxxxxx

 

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