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Asked: 2026-06-11T20:56:56+00:00

I am working on a simple Perl app that copies another Perl app and

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I am working on a simple Perl app that copies another Perl app and builds all the required Apache config files.

The thing I can’t seem to figure out is how to reload the apache config on the fly. I know I could do a system call and reload apache there, but that would mean I would have to get root access to this app, and that is a little scary.

Is there a way to ask apache to reload its config files from within the CGI container?

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I have done some more research and the problem is that Apache must be run with elevated privileges to bind to port 80. So one solution would be to set Apache to run on another port and forward that port to 80 via iptables. (This may be a last resort but a very messy solution).

Here is what gets me, Apache should be able to maintain its current port bindings and recheck its config files, all I am doing is adding another script alias.

Is there any way to add a new script alias with out a reload?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sorry to ask a question then not give some one else the opportunity to answer but I figured out a solution and I hope it may help some one else.

    What I had to do was leave the config alone it is not possible to reload in the manner that I required with out root privileges or some fancy port forwarding (That would make this application less portable than I would like).

    So the only thing that Apache appears to load dynamically is the file system.

    What I have done is used mod_rewrite to redirect the script requests and simply put them in /var/www/appname/copyname/cgi-bin/

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