restarting php , apache, or both?

[sfullman]

Hello All,

1. I have already searched forum carefully and can't find the answer so far.

2. Please don't preach about how bad it is to have globals ON.

3. I changed globals to ON in my php.ini file.

4. So here are questions from a new guy in this particular realm (I've done a lot of programming but just learning Linux / Apache / PHP system on my managed server):

   a. Do I restart PHP, Apache, or both?
   b. If I only restart Apache, I'd like to know why, since it would seem PHP is running a copy of php.ini in memory and it's the guy that needs restarted.
   c. DUH... how do I restart Apache?
   d. DUH... how do I restart PHP even if I don't need to, so that I know? :-)

I truly appreciate the help, and will continue searching.

P.S. NOTE!

OK, I did find a way to restart apache:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

which says:
stopping httpd: OK
starting httpd: /usr/bin/find: /usr/local/apache2/libexec: No such file or directory (????) OK
-- well it worked, but why did I get that warning?
Thanks!

Sincerely,
Sam Fullman
Compass Point Media

[ir4z0r]

• you always restart Apache, since PHP is no running service (afaik)
  when having changed the httpd.conf or php.ini

Apache will then reread the php.ini (note: if you have a syntax error
in it, Apache will use an old one, roger rabbit alone knows where it's stored)

the warning: well, check your httpd.conf if you've provided this path
somewhere and correct it (I guess)