[SWLUG] Restart Apache from php

[Toby Maxwell-Lyte]

Hi All,

I have written a script that will add a virtual host to my httpd.conf
include directory. I would like to be able to envoke this script from 
php
so that I can quickly and eazily set up new subdomains. Having done 
this I
would then like to automatically issue a "apachectl graceful" so that
apache rereads httpd.conf. I am aware that I can use the php exec()
function but want to be sure that I don't cause any security 
loopholes. 

httpd.conf contains a line that includes the subdir virtual/*.conf
My script creates a .conf file in the /etc/httpd/conf/virtual 
directory
with the relevant docroot, logfile location etc. It takes the domain 
name
and docroot as parameters. 

I've had a good google around but haven't turned up anything useful. 

Any suggestions would be much appreciated, 

cheers
Toby


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