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 <server root>/conf/httpd.conf by default.
Couldn't it be changed by running the files through a sed script
substituting <server root>/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
> <ache@nagual.ru>
> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
>