in reply to dynamic httpd.conf

dragonchild, what are you trying to do? For instance I have created a setup here that is managed by a perl script that generates the httpd.conf file from a database. The process runs a few times a day grabs the info from the DB and generates a httpd.conf, then sends the signal to httpd to reread config. There may be a way to do what you want that is a little different from that approach, but I need more info on what the actual goal is.


-Waswas

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Re: Re: dynamic httpd.conf
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Mar 01, 2004 at 16:41 UTC
    I have four copies of the same application. One is prod, one is test, and two are the developer instances. The httpd.conf is almost exactly the same, save for about 8 values. I was trying to be cute and not have to wrap the httpd command in a process to generate the appropriate httpd.conf in the appropriate place before calling httpd, but it doesn't look like I'll be able to.

    Thanks!

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      Most people start httpd by running the apachectl command, which is just a shell script. You can edit it or replace it with something that runs some perl code, generates httpd.conf in a temp file, and then passes that with httpd -f.
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