Greetings wise Monks,

I've just started learning perl. And I have this assignment, to do. Taking a look at my httpd.conf: 

<VirtualHost 64.194.130.12>
        ServerAdmin admin@foo.org
        DocumentRoot /home/eric
        ServerName eric.foo.org
        ErrorLog logs/eric.foo.org-error_log
        CustomLog logs/eric.foo.org-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/eric/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 64.194.130.12>
        ServerAdmin admin@woo.org
        DocumentRoot /home/michael
        ServerName michael.woo.org
        ErrorLog logs/michael.woo.org-error_log
        CustomLog logs/michael.woo.org-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/michael/cgi-bin/
</VirtualHost>

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Some other configuration options here, not related to VirtualHost entries...

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I want to make a script(ran as root) that:

1. Asks for inputs servername and documentroot.
2. From these open httpd.conf file, add in an entry(a line) for cgi-bin2 just before the closing </VirtualHost> for that particular VirtualHost entry only. eg. Michael but not Eric.
3. Make the directory cgi-bin2 in documentroot. 

<VirtualHost 64.194.130.12>
        ServerAdmin admin@woo.org
        DocumentRoot /home/michael
        ServerName michael.woo.org
        ErrorLog logs/michael.woo.org-error_log
        CustomLog logs/michael.woo.org-access_log common
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/michael/cgi-bin/
<<---- (add ScriptAlias /cgi-bin2/ /home/michael/cgi-bin2/)
</VirtualHost>

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Any ideas and pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

neb.

In reply to Add entry into httpd.conf by nebola

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