We had a requirement of setting up an Apache 2.2 / ColdFusion 8 web server that could have virtual hosts added throughout the day without any disruption to running pages. Initially it looked like an Apache graceful restart would be a fine solution for this. However, what we ended up finding is that any running ColdFusion pages actually received a”JRun Connector Protocol Error” message.
We confirmed that this issue existed by creating a ColdFusion page that outputted a message every second (using CFFLUSH to make it outputted to the screen). While this was running we then ran “kill -SIGUSR1 `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`” and received the following message:
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Server Error
The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.
JRun Connector Protocol Error.
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It turned out that the solution was to use VirtualDocumentRoot instead of just the plain old DocumentRoot setting for a single virtual host. This allowed specifying the $0 variable as part of the value. So we ended up being able to have “VirtualDocumentRoot /somedir/$1”. More information about using this solution can be found at the following URL:
