From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Aug 7 10:22:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21945 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:22:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (root@sunrise.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA21934 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA04105 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 10:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01040; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:29:35 +0300 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:29:35 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= cc: Satoshi Asami , ports%freebsd.org@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: Apache conf -> etc In-Reply-To: <199608071642.UAA00487@nagual.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote: > There is yet one reason against: I doubt, that this change can be made > without major retouching of apache internals at least config > files and command line arguments must be heavily rewritten. > They have so-called WWW server root and keep config, error, and log > files under it. All efforts to move config files from server > root to etc can only cause more confusion. Apache itself search > config files under /conf/httpd.conf by default. Couldn't it be changed by running the files through a sed script substituting /conf/httpd.conf with ${PREFIX}/etc/httpd.conf? Yes, it would make the location incompatible with the other OS's, but would keep the like files (at least by default) in a certain and known place. Sander > Of course it can be tuned by command line arguments f.e. > but it leads down to more complexity and confusion, and disallow > easy migration from another OSes Apache-handled servers to > FreeBSD. All peoples restart their httpds just by killing them > and entering 'httpd' again at command prompt. With change you want > they must to enter additional long command line arguments and > it is completely unwanted thing. > -- > Andrey A. Chernov > > http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/ >