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From: Eric Covener <covener@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Copy of httpd.confg

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Gil Dawson <Gil@gildawson.com> wrote:
> Where can I get an approximate copy of the httpd.conf file that was
> (probably) released with Version 2.2.24 (Unix)?
>
> I'm looking at the httpd.conf file on my MacBook Pro (that I assume was
> delivered with MacOS 10.6.8), and some of the comments (#) don't make sen=
se.
> I'd like to compare my file against a version of this file as delivered f=
rom
> Apache.
>
> The commands themselves seem to work; it's just the comments I suspect ma=
y
> have been changed from what was originally written.
>
> Example:
>
> From someone else's machine (of unknown versionity):
>
> # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
> # of the server=E2=80=99s control files begin with =E2=80=9C/=E2=80=9D (o=
r =E2=80=9Cdrive:/=E2=80=9D for Win32), the
> # server will use that explicit path. If the filenames do *not* begin
> # with =E2=80=9C/=E2=80=9D, the value of ServerRoot is prepended =E2=80=
=94 so =E2=80=9Clogs/foo.log=E2=80=9D
> # with ServerRoot set to =E2=80=9C/usr/local/apache2=E2=80=B3 will be int=
erpreted by the
> # server as =E2=80=9C/usr/local/apache2/logs/foo.log=E2=80=9D.
>
>
> The first paragraph makes sense to me.
>
>
> From my machine (Version 2.2.24):
>
> # Configuration and logfile names: If the filenames you specify for many
> # of the server's control files begin with "/" (or "drive:/" for Win32), =
the
> # server will use that explicit path.  If the filenames do *not* begin
> # with "/", the value of ServerRoot is prepended -- so
> "/private/var/log/apache2/foo_log"
> # with ServerRoot set to "/usr" will be interpreted by the
> # server as "/usr//private/var/log/apache2/foo_log".
>
>
> The second, not so much.
>
> The new file names don't fit the file system structure as implemented.
> Why would Apple change the examples?

Here's what it looks like, with the variables substituted at
install-time unresolved:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/tags/2.2.24/docs/conf/httpd.conf.i=
n?view=3Dmarkup

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