On 27 Apr 2016, at 19:32, 洪志道 <hongzhidao@gmail.com> wrote:

> Get.
> In production, there may be some possibility with load_module directive.
> 1. add new module: load_module modules/some_module.so; [?]
> 2. remove exist load_module directive, just comment out. [?]
> 3. directive not changed but the so file changed. [kill -USR2 `cat nginx.pid`; sleep 2; kill -QUIT `cat nginx.pid.oldbin`]
> And how to deal with?

USR2/QUIT is online binary upgrade procedure:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#upgrade
And this procedure should be used to change and to unload modules.


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> 2016-04-28 0:08 GMT+08:00 Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>:
> On 27 Apr 2016, at 18:51, 洪志道 <hongzhidao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> Is it the only way to solve the problem?
>
> This is a way to reload a module in production without service interruption.
>
>> I think it will be common that developers try to use dso instead of static module.
>
> Developers can simply stop and start nginx again.
>
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>
>> Nginx offical site points out we could load in so modules using reload or restart, but it seems forget to instruct the details about reload.
>> And it's a great design, thanks again.
>>
>> 2016-04-27 19:22 GMT+08:00 Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>:
>> On 27 Apr 2016, at 12:10, 洪志道 <hongzhidao@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> for example following config:
>>>
>>> daemon on;
>>> ...
>>> load_module modules/ngx_http_test_module.so;
>>> ...
>>>
>>> > start nginx
>>> > change ngx_http_test_module.c, then regenerate so file
>>> > kill -HUP pid
>>>
>>> I found nginx still run the old so file (load first time), and how to work with new so file?
>>>
>>> I tried .../sbin/nginx -s reload, It works as I expected. It seems there is some differences in 'kill -HUP' and 'sbin/nginx -s reload’;
>>
>> kill -USR2 `cat nginx.pid`; sleep 2; kill -QUIT `cat nginx.pid.oldbin`
>>
>>
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>> http://nginx.com
>
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