This is a great program for all people running apache with dynamic IP - It gets your IP thru DOS's IPconfig (change that for the appropriate UNIX program), and places it in the httpd.conf overwriting your old IP, and starts apache. a few notes: A. This is made for my comp, as you'll see via the dirnames, etc. So: 1. Change the dir in the Open and System calls to reflect your dir. 2.Change the `ipconfig` to a UNIX console IP getting program and change the regex to reflect that. 3. BACK UP HTTPD.CONF! This is extremely important. 4. Check if your ServerName line in Httpd.conf is really number 256 (this is the default with an unchanged 1.3x Apache) UPDATE: Added a critical \n which will save your .conf file from getting funky. For all of those who've had their httpd.conf already ruined: echo $100 > /dev/null@yourhostname.net . Sorry.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$_ = `ipconfig`;
/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\s*$/;
my (@try);
print "Starting apache service with $1 as IP...\n";
open(CONF, "C:\\progra~1\\apache~1\\apache\\conf\\httpd.conf") || die 
+"cannot open file: $!";
@try=<CONF>;
close(CONF);
print "$try[256] old IP";
$try[256]="ServerName $1\n"; #UPDATE HERE
print "$try[256] is IP for apache";
open(CONF, ">C:\\progra~1\\apache~1\\apache\\conf\\httpd.conf") || die
+ "cannot open file3: $!";
foreach (@try) {
  print CONF "$_"; }
close CONF;
system("C:\\Progra~1\\Apache~1\\Apache\\Apache.exe") || die "Can't sta
+rt apache service: $!";

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