Re: [gentoo-server] mysql not restarting

[Christian Spoo]

> p.s.: does anyone know of a namebased virtualhosting module or similar for apache2 that doesn't require a graceful apache2 restart?

You could redirect all requests of a certain domain by using
<VirtualHost IP:80>
  ServerName *.domain.tld

 (other options needed for your vhost)
</VirtualHost>

Then you could easily determine which of your "virtual" vhosts is
requested by using PHP. The current domainname is stored in the special
variable $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] (something like "subdomain.domain.tld").

Now you can decide what page to display. But please note that this
solution requires a PHP call for every file you serve (including CSS and
images). This may cause a significant performance impact because Apache
won't able to cache anything.