Using redhat-config-httpd with another apache.

[Nifty Hat Mitch]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:42:38PM -0500, Fritz Whittington wrote:
> >Mark Haney wrote:
> >>On Fri, 1999-01-01 at 01:53, Chris Logan wrote:
> >>>Chris Logan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi everyone, I am wanting to use the redhat-config-httpd with 
> >>>>another Apache that I have installed and am using on my system is 
> >>>>there any way I can point it to the other Apache?
....
> >>
> >>Second, are you asking to configure a second copy of apache on your
> >>machine?  Or just one not in the standard FC2 location?

> >installed else where that I am using. I still want to be able to use 
> >the redhat-config-httpd even thought I can do it manually it would be 
> >easier to use the GUI. Is there any way to point the config GUI to my 
> >separate httpd.conf?
> >
> This may be completely off the wall, but can't you just pretend to 
> configure the apache on your machine and then just transfer the 
> resulting httpd.conf file over to the other machine?

That would be my first and safest thought.  Note that only a single
depth backup is made so make your own.

Since the tool is python it is not insane to copy or modify the
python.

A minor bit of grep and find and I see:
     ## File generated automatically by genClass.py
     ## Do not edit this file directly.
     ....
    ./ApacheBase.py:   rmd5 = hexstr (md5 (open ('/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf', 'r').read ()).digest())
    ./ApacheBase.py:     os.remove ('/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak')
    ./ApacheBase.py:     os.rename ('/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf', '/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.bak')
    ./ApacheBase.py:     open ('/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf', 'w').write (result)

There is no magic $HTTPDCONF but it looks very possible in an open source world to change...
Just do a bit of digging... and do not ignore the pile of handy documents.
  
    /usr/share/doc/redhat-config-httpd/html/intro.html
    /usr/share/doc/tux-3.2.18/tux/configuration.html


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