Best way to restart OLS?

bert

What's the best way to restart OLS without rebooting the server?

Mainly for the sake of htaccess changes.

Adam

You can either (as root)

docker restart openlitespeed

docker exec openlitespeed /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart

There will be a button in the UI shortly to do this.

We also have a feature request logged to monitor for .htaccess changes and automatically restart openlitespeed. This is potentially possible in the future.

John-P

Adam We also have a feature request logged to monitor for .htaccess changes and automatically restart openlitespeed. This is potentially possible in the future.

This would be a fantastic addition 😃

MediaServe

Adam "There will be a button in the UI shortly to do this."

Did this make the April update? Haven't seen it yet but I'm also not sure where I would find it either.

josedieguez

Adam

slimx

Adam Hi is this button not there yet?

bert

Thanks Adam

AdamM

@Adam
So then will practically not have to pay for the LiteSpeed license? 😎
One of the important features of litespeed is the automatic htaccess reload

Adam

AdamM

I wouldn't go that far. Reloading the web server every time the .htaccess file changes isn't ideal but it's a workaround for people who want to run OpenLiteSpeed and don't want to reload manually.

John-P

Direct Admin currently restarts OLS if any .htaccess files are changed through the file manager, and there is also a suggestion here (OLS KB) of how to use a cron job to restart check every few mins for .htaccess changes and restart OLS if it finds any. Not sure this would work in Enhance due to the containerization, but it's an interesting idea.

MediaServe

A button for restarting OLS will be helpful, but is there no way to gracefully restart a single website? I had a client with a VPS migrated to Enhance, and he decided he wanted to switch to OLS from Apache. Everything worked great (surprising because of some non-WordPress websites with lengthy/complex .htaccess files which didn't cause any problems) but WordPress needed Permalinks settings resaved to fix those. I really want to replace Apache with OLS (performance improved tremendously!) but I'm wondering if a client with a twitchy trigger finger is going to cause all websites to glitch temporarily while OLS is restarting? Might be worth building in some sort of limit to the use of that button for each Org?

Adam

MediaServe A button for restarting OLS will be helpful, but is there no way to gracefully restart a single website? I had a client with a VPS migrated to Enhance, and he decided he wanted to switch to OLS from Apache. Everything worked great (surprising because of some non-WordPress websites with lengthy/complex .htaccess files which didn't cause any problems) but WordPress needed Permalinks settings resaved to fix those. I really want to replace Apache with OLS (performance improved tremendously!) but I'm wondering if a client with a twitchy trigger finger is going to cause all websites to glitch temporarily while OLS is restarting? Might be worth building in some sort of limit to the use of that button for each Org?

We have similar functionality for when websites are being added - adding 100 websites in one go via the API won't reload the web server 100 times, the requests are batched. If we allowed VPS customers to perform on-demand restarts, they would use the same logic.

josedieguez

Imagine, being able to save on LSWS replacing it with OLS.. would be nice.

Adrien

Adam If we allowed VPS customers to perform on-demand restarts, they would use the same logic.

Do you mean that 1 customer needing a reload would be put on hold waiting for other requests from other customers to batch them? I'm sorry I am not sure to have understood.

Adam

Adrien Do you mean that 1 customer needing a reload would be put on hold waiting for other requests from other customers to batch them? I'm sorry I am not sure to have understood.

If it's a VPS then by definition they are the only customer. We're talking at most a delay of a few seconds but it's enough to stop the web server from being disrupted.

MediaServe

Adrien I think Adam is suggesting that multiple restart requests would be batched so that within a certain timeframe only one restart would happen. All might depend on the time interval, which would be nice to be configurable. That'd be infinitely better than having a trigger happy client on a shared server with other clients disrupting thing too badly.

Adrien

Oh I understood. Thank you.

Adrien

MediaServe I've just checked and could not find it too. The only options we have atm are:

twest

slimx in the latest version you don't really need the button. Enhance will now auto detect changes to htaccess and restart.