Perhaps I didn't explain the problem properly.. The config will be updated (just not very often), and the goal of the project is to make manual editing of config files (including Apache config) more or less non-existant. So I have an application that generates these config files, which then get read on the other side.

I could generate them in a way so that they're written as a set of variables, and read in to Apache, but there are going to be a lot (about 20+ a week are created), and there's quite a lot of data in each, so I'm concerned that the memory usage would be too great (hence my current solution).

I hope that makes it a little clearer..

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