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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 02:02:49 -0600 (MDT)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: config/449: why not make the top few lines of httpd.h
 configurable in Configuration?
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Not if you want to be able to start apache without passing it any special
arguments to tell you where to put the config file.  #ifdef-ing some or
all of those things in httpd.h would be a good thing.

HTTPD_ROOT for sure, perhaps a bunch more too.

See the patches being done for the FreeBSD port at;

    ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/www/apache/patches/

I don't agree with the way he is doing them all, but... that's the general
concept.  It should be possible for a vendor to make Apache work with the
structure they want by modifying only Configuration and the *.conf files.

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:

> I'm curious what top few lines you need to configure... in particular you
> can use the DocumentRoot and ServerRoot directives to move those things
> around.  See conf/httpd.conf-dist for ServerRoot, and conf/srm.conf-dist
> for DocumentRoot.
> 
> Dean
> 
> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Stephen Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >Number:         449
> > >Category:       config
> > >Synopsis:       why not make the top few lines of httpd.h configurable in Configuration?
> > >Confidential:   no
> > >Severity:       non-critical
> > >Priority:       medium
> > >Responsible:    apache (Apache HTTP Project)
> > >State:          open
> > >Class:          change-request
> > >Submitter-Id:   apache
> > >Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 21 23:30:01 1997
> > >Originator:     turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
> > >Organization:
> > apache
> > >Release:        1.2b8
> > >Environment:
> > all
> > >Description:
> > There are only a few items in the top part of httpd.h.  I've found it
> > useful to put my Web related stuff under /WWW/, and the servers themselves
> > by version under /WWW/Servers/.  (Ie, the top of the docs tree is 
> > /WWW/htdocs and 1.2b8 lives under /WWW/htdocs/apache_1.2b8 with all the
> > attendant subdirectories like conf/ and logs/.)  It would be nice to be 
> > able to configure this in one place (Configuration) rather than have to
> > edit both Configuration and httpd.h.
> > >How-To-Repeat:
> > 
> > >Fix:
> > 
> > >Audit-Trail:
> > >Unformatted:
> > 
> > 
> > 
>