Mats Erik Andersson wrote:

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> Hello,

>

> three weeks I set up a Subversion/Apache2 on my private

> OpenBSD 4.2 to be publicly available. It was not migrated

> from an earlier system. Doing this I hade cause to restart

> Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.2 repeatedly until my access control

> worked correctly. This disclosed a shortcoming in Apache 1.3,

> which I verified anew some five minutes ago.

>

> The standard procedure I use is

>

> # apachectl2 configtest

> # apacheclt2 restart

>

> which works perfectly for Apache 2.2, but the counterpart

>

> # apachectl configtest

> # apachectl restart

>

> claims to restart httpd, but in fact only kills off the

> previous service without starting a new one. However,

>

> # apachectl configtest

> # apachectl stop

> # apachectl start

>

> is perfectly in order. When reading the log file, it is

> clear that of some unknown reason one shared module

> "mod_auth_digest.so" cannot be located, although it is

> present in the indicated directory and nowhere else:

>

>> Syntax error on line 224 of /conf/httpd.conf:

>> Cannot load /usr/lib/apache/modules/mod_auth_digest.so

>> into server: File not found

>

> Thus "apachectl start" can locate a module that

> "apachectl restart" cannot find. I find the responsible

> maintainer ought to look into this matter, although the

> above workaround is perfectly viable and which used

> until I had my service up and running as intended.

Apache is chrooted by default, making `apachectl restart' unusable for

quite some time.
It should be in the archives and possibly in the FAQ.
/Alexander