apache + php + mysql startup order

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 11/30/06, Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I'm trying to write an automated rc.d-script that should
> check MySQL database before it's used by the
> Apache+PHP hosting.

If I were you, I'd make my php scripts handle temporary
db outages. Don't forget that most hosting providers have
web and sql servers on separate machines.