Apache Not Restarting When Add Subdomain as Main Cpanel Account

[rmatakajr]

Hey Guys

We were just moved to a new server and I have never experinced this
behavior before. When I add a new cpanel account through the WHM
XML API using a subdomain.domain.com as the main domain. Im getting
the a 404 error.

It makes the directories and account successfully but it seems that we have to
restart apache to initilize it. I had another server with thousands of accounts
that did not behave this way

The system admins at host gator said this

Unfortunately, this is a normal behavior for cPanel. To guard against Apache being unavailable due to high load, the system only restarts Apache occasionally. This interval allows many changes to Apache to queue up, so minimal extra load is generated, and no services are disrupted. I do apologize for the inconvenience you've experienced from this, but this is unfortunately the programmed behavior of cPanel. You can restart Apache sooner on your own, if you're certain that you're finished making changes via cPanel or WHM, you can restart Apache yourself by logging into WHM and going to "Restart Services" at the bottom of the menu listing on the left-hand side, and clicking on "HTTP Server (Apache)".

But we cannot possibly go into WHM and restart apache everytime.. there has to be
somthing Im missing here.. hoping to reach out the communities for some help

Thanks
Ricky!

 

[rmatakajr]

Hi i received a reply back from my ticket with host gator

I've corrected cPanel's queueproc daemon which handles Apache restarts when it sees that new cPanel accounts, domains, or subdomains are setup on the server. I then logged into the account 'domain' and created a new subdomain called 'test.domain.com' and see that Apache was gracefully restarted a few seconds later automatically.

[Fri Jun 10 09:26:21 2011] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart
[Fri Jun 10 09:26:21 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Jun 10 09:26:21 2011] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Jun 10 09:26:22 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8m DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 configured -- resuming normal operations

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I just want to know, how I can monitor this process? It seems that whatever the tech did fixed the issue
but if it happens again I would like to be knowledgeable of how to diagnose these issues and what
I have to do with this daemon

Thanks!
Ricky