From: André Malo The LockFile directive.
fcntlfnctl(2) system call to lock the
+ fcntl(2) system call to lock the
file defined by the LockFile directive.posixsemGroup directive sets the group under
which the server will answer requests. In order to use this
- directive, the server must be run initially as root. If you start the
- server as a non-root user, it will fail to change to the specified
- group, and will instead continue to run as the group of the original
- user. Unix-group is one of:root. If
+ you start the server as a non-root user, it will fail to change to the
+ specified group, and will instead continue to run as the group of the
+ original user. Unix-group is one of:
It is best to avoid putting this file in a world writable
directory such as /var/tmp because someone could create
a denial of service attack and prevent the server from starting by
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ to serve requests
For non-threaded servers (i.e., prefork),
MaxClients translates into the maximum
number of child processes that will be launched to serve requests.
- The default value is 256; to increase it, you must also raise
+ The default value is 256; to increase it, you must also raise
ServerLimit.
For threaded and hybrid servers (e.g. beos
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ will handle during its life
process will die. If MaxRequestsPerChild is
0, then the process will never expire.
The default value for mpm_netware and
mpm_winnt is 0.
For KeepAlive requests, only
the first request is counted towards this limit. In effect, it
changes the behavior to limit the number of connections per
@@ -537,12 +537,12 @@ of the daemon
SIGHUP (kill -1) signal to the process id listed in the
PidFile.
The PidFile is subject to the same warnings about log file - placement and security.
+The PidFile is subject to the same
+ warnings about log file placement and security.
For the prefork MPM, this directive sets the
maximum configured value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the
- Apache process. For the worker MPM, this directive in combination
- with ThreadLimit sets
+ Apache process. For the worker MPM, this directive
+ in combination with ThreadLimit sets
the maximum configured value for MaxClients for the lifetime of the
Apache process. Any attempts to change this directive during a
restart will be ignored, but MaxClients can be modified during
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mpm_common.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mpm_common.xml
index 11d9048c816..8409daa9673 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mpm_common.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mpm_common.xml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ accepting requests on network sockets
>LockFile directive.
fcntlfnctl(2) system call to lock the
+ fcntl(2) system call to lock the
file defined by the The
root. If
+ you start the server as a non-root user, it will fail to change to the
+ specified group, and will instead continue to run as the group of the
+ original user. Unix-group is one of:
The PidFile is subject to the same warnings about log file
- placement and The
It is best to avoid putting this file in a world writable
directory such as /var/tmp because someone could create
a denial of service attack and prevent the server from starting by
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ to serve requests
For non-threaded servers (i.e., 256; to increase it, you must also raise
For threaded and hybrid servers (e.g. 0, then the process will never expire.
The default value for 0.
For
For the