Auto refresh Openlitespeed (OLS)

Dhanamerdeka

Ummmm hello aapanel
Well it's another "Request" maybe or atleast searching for solution

For Openlitespeed (OLS) can you somehow add "feature" to make it automatically refresh OLS itself?
so they can auto update with new and edited htaccess?
For now there's been alot of example from direct admin and cyberpanel which they booth had "system" to detect any change to htaccess and reload openlitespeed automatically so it's nearly realtime..... with this system we don't need to refresh ols manually after we made any change to htaccess

can you add this type of feature?
or maybe inform us how to do it via aapanel?

from 2019 i think i seeing this issue and it seems no progress being made... yet it's important small feature to had on the panel

aaPanel_Kern

Dhanamerdeka

#!/bin/bash

# Set the file path to monitor
watch_file="/www/wwwroot/135log.com/.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
  /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
fi

Hello, this is not currently considered. It is recommended that you check whether the file has been modified every 5 minutes through the cron shell script, and restart the service automatically if it is modified.

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern ummm sorry, but where i should put this?
on cronjob?

i hope on next update it will be had "standart" htaccess autodetect from aapanel itself, since OLS works "amazing" on my sites....

well i had 6sites with minimum server spec....
sometimes on peak visitor, it come to 100% usage....

but after i change this current server with full OLS
well... maximum they just eat around 80-50 usage maximum....

just... one little things that i need to restart it every i change htaccess.... that's why i hope on future aapanel had that's feature....
vs another panel
just this automatic restart that doesn't present on aapanel

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern and btw... how can i input multiple file directory on it? any idea?

and on https://openlitespeed.org/kb/reload-openlitespeed-automatically-with-directadmin/
they said it can be done with this type of cronjob....
it seems they didn't need to add "every domain" to it...
can you make cronjob something like this?

because i afraid if i add some other domain... it will need to add it one by one to the current cronjob so it's not efficient..... do you had something for this problem?

aaPanel_Kern

Dhanamerdeka
Hello, this is a limitation of openlitespeed, we can't deal with it at present, it is recommended to run the shell script regularly through cron
Suggest you check if other panels are also using openlitespeed or litespeed

klaus

Dhanamerdeka

Only Enterprise version of OLS have the possibility to detect changes in .htaccess and restart the OLS automatically, I don't know how many times you will edit .htaccess to need that but if you need that then you need to buy the Enterprise license, a panel can't do something that is not implemented in the OLS In the first place.

Or you can use a cron job, but i recommend to use a watchdog so it doesn't run on a time basis.

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern my friend using cyberpanel + openlitespeed
and it seems after importing some sites dir, and changing htaccess it works directly without restarting anything

and in the same things on aapanel with same script and modify, we need to refresh ols to make it works.....
any solution for it?

Dhanamerdeka

klaus how exactly this "watchdog" doing?
and how to add them?

it's seems great idea... but idk how to deal with it....
can you help me or atleast give some link how to do it?

klaus

Dhanamerdeka https://community.cyberpanel.net/t/htacces-modifications-and-need-for-ols-restart/18537

They either create a cron job for that, highly doubt about it but is possible or your friend doesn't use the OLS but the LSE.

klaus

Dhanamerdeka
Is more like you will need to create a watchdog because I doubt there is one created already.

The most easy way to do that is to use path unit see examples in here

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/introduction-path-units

To edit a service file you need to use this command sudo systemctl edit, allways make a backup of the original and make a backup in a notepad with the modification in case of update the service file could be overwritten and you will lose the modification.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html

Above link is a more detailed explanation about how systemd works.

This would take much more time to create it but once is done would be a properly modification.

P.S. A watchdog is more like a watcher but is the closest thing that dropped in my mind to name a modification like this one.

aaPanel_Kern

solution

Manually restart ols
Check whether the file is modified by adding a timing script above, if modified, automatically restart ols

aaPanel_Kern

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern allright i will do that....
btw, does on future it will be anything like... built in auto refresh?

aaPanel_Kern

Dhanamerdeka
Hello, it has been recorded that development confirmation is required to add it.
can be changed like this:

#!/bin/bash

# Define an array of files to monitor
watch_files=(
  "/www/wwwroot/135log.com/.htaccess"
  "/www/wwwroot/2.com/.htaccess"
  "/www/wwwroot/3.com/.htaccess"
)

# Check if any of the files have been modified within the last 5 minutes
for file in "${watch_files[@]}"
do
  if [ "$(find "$file" -mmin -5)" ]
  then
    echo "File $file has changed, restarting OpenLiteSpeed server..."
    /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
    break
  fi
done

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern wait....
for this method we should type one by one every domain....
does there's any ways to make it automated?
like....
/www/wwwroot/*/.htaccess

does this will works or not?
refer to https://openlitespeed.org/kb/reload-openlitespeed-automatically-with-directadmin/
they can make something like that....
does aapanel can use "*" too to make it auto scan it all?

*EDIT it works.... but i still don't know how to made it scan 2 file depth so i hope someone can tell me how to do it XD

aaPanel_Kern

Modify the file directory in watch_files

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern allright

Dhanamerdeka

klaus so how to add it on aapanel?

aaPanel_Kern

#!/bin/bash

# Set the file path to monitor
watch_file="/www/wwwroot/*/.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
  /usr/local/lsws/bin/lswsctrl restart
fi

Dhanamerdeka

aaPanel_Kern allright it's already great now....
maybe that's all for now... thanks for the support and info

i hope on next version there's more efficient and automatic ways to deal with this.... since OLS proven good with my project
it's can safe alot of money because i use 50% less resource on OLS than Apache