Starting, Restarting and Stopping your mongoose server

Starting the server

• Change to the server root directory
  cd  ~/3993.server
• Start the server, using the current directory as the location of the configuration files
  /depot/http/bin/httpd  -d  .

Restarting the server

• Change to the server root directory
  cd  ~/3993.server
• Send a hang-up signal to the server. The ` characters below are not the single quote ' character, they are the accent grave character, which is usually on the same key as the tilda ~.
  kill  -HUP  `cat  logs/httpd.pid`

Stopping the server

• Change to the server root directory
  cd  ~/3993.server
• Send a terminate signal to the server. This will also terminate all the spare servers.
  kill  -TERM  `cat  logs/httpd.pid`

Obtaining the process ID (pid) of your server

• Issue the command ps -gx to see a list of your server and spare servers
• Issue the command ps -x to see a list of your spare servers only.
• The main server is the one that was in the first list, but not in the second.
• Read the pid number for the server. You can use this number directly to hup and kill your server. For example, if the pid was 12345, these commands would work
  kill -TERM 12345
kill -HUP  12345

Obtaining a script files for shortcuts to the above commands

The above commands are tedious to type all the time. It is possible to create small executable script files that will simplify managing the server

I have written a script that can do all of the above, and more. It has five options: start, stop, hup, pid, info.

start

start the server

stop

stop the server

hup

make the server reread its configuration files

pid

display the process ID of the main server

info

display the pid and start time of all the servers in your pool.

To get a copy of this

• Change to your server directory
  cd ~/3993.server
• Copy the script to your directory
  cp ~downeyt/public/scripts/server .
• Make sure it is executable
  chmod 700 server

To execute this command, just change to your server directory and type ./ followed by the script name and the option. For example

• ./server  start
• ./server  stop
• ./server  hup
• ./server  pid
• ./server  info