OLS reload for htaccess changes

mendozal

I'd like to test the openlitespeed web server (currently using apache), but I believe it needs to be manually reloaded when changes to htaccess and other configurations are made.

Is there a workaround in Enhance for this situation? I believe other panels have certain ways to auto reload on htaccess changes, for example: https://docs.directadmin.com/webservices/openlitespeed/general.html#how-to-make-ols-automatically-reload-after-htaccess-changes

I'd like to make this into a feature request if there's no currently a workaround.

Adam

mendozal

This is something we could automatically do in the future.

In the meantime the cron job workaround proposed by DirectAdmin could work on Enhance with a little modification. The differences being that the path to your websites would be /var/www/*/public_html and the command to restart openlitespeed would be:

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

Also you won't have access to the cgid binary they're using to detect the start time as that's within the openlitespeed container. You would have to use mmin and pick a time which is slightly less frequent than your cron job.

badboybackagain

Adam Can you please mention the exact command that we need to put in cron in order to make this work. Thanks.

Adam

I would suggest you do this at most once an hour so the cron job would look like

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

To make the cron job silent regardless of the output from OLS you might want to do

0 * * * * docker exec openlitespeed /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart > /dev/null 2>&1

badboybackagain

How about finding the change in .htaccess and then doing it. If no file is changed in last one hour, dont restart.

Adam

You could probably engineer this yourself with a script in your language of choice which checks modification times. In future it might be a feature of Enhance.

PradeepC

@badboybackagain If you develop the script, please post it here so we can all benefit from it.

mamang

Maybe the scripts like this, using cron for 5 minutes

#!/bin/bash

# Set the file path to monitor
watch_file="/var/www/*/public_html/.htaccess"

# will check if the specified file has been modified within the last 5 minutes
if [ $(find $watch_file -mmin -5) ]
then
  echo "File has changed, executing command..."
  # restart ols
  docker exec -it openlitespeed /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
fi

Edited---
For me this code working well