Show apache status and start/stop controls

[Sense Egbert Hofstede]

It would be nice to be able to see if the apache server is (still) running and control that with rapache. At Windows you've got the Apache monitor. It would be great if similar functionality would also be implemented in Rapache. This would include these features:
-View of current server status
-Stop/start/reload control
-Be able to control more servers(this is probably something for stage 2/3)

[TAC one (tacone)]

Further elaborating:
  - we need to understand WHICH is the right way to check for apache status.
  - apache status shuold be checked every X seconds. So:
    - we need a light way to do that.
    - we need to know how to properly use threads (and how to close them on main program quit)

[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

I can help with threading

a couple of things,

you must init the threading modal
# Turn on threading
gtk.gdk.threads_init()

If you want to update the UI from a thread you must lock the gtk thread
gtk.gdk.threads_enter()
input_name.set_text("example")
gtk.gdk.threads_leave()

# Thread handler
def threaded(f):
 def wrapper(*args):
  t = threading.Thread(target=f, args=args)
  t.setDaemon(True) # wont keep app alive
  t.start()
 return wrapper

@threaded
def test_thread():
        while True:
               print "threaded"
               time.sleep(1)

[Craig Roberts (craig1709)]

A couple of thoughts:

You could always check the output of
$ ps -e |grep apache
which would return a blank string if the server is stopped, and a formatted list of process IDs if it's running.

Or you could check for the existence of /var/run/apache2.pid which I *assume* is created when the process is running, and deleted when stopped (which seems to be the case on my machine).

Fantastic software by the way.

[KillerKiwi (killerkiwi2005)]

Status is shown in the main window status bar in the plugins branch