config/5166: multiple Listen statements

[Kevin Wang <kw...@nexprise.com>]

The following reply was made to PR config/5166; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kevin Wang <kw...@nexprise.com>
To: apbugs@apache.org
Cc:  
Subject: config/5166: multiple Listen statements
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 12:48:36 -0700

 Kevin Wang wrote:
 > 
 > I would actually like to request that apache IGNORE multiple Listen
 > statements, and perhaps to just log an error, but continue.
 > 
 > My situation is this:
 > 
 > I have one main server that does nothing, really, but at the bottom of
 > the main httpd.conf file, I include lots of virtual servers.  Sometimes
 > I have one ip address with lots of different port #'s (I need Listen,
 > otherwise the virtual server can't use that address), and sometimes I
 > have lots of ip addresses with the same port# (port 80 or 443).  I would
 > like to just use one template for all of my virtual servers, and
 > currently they have one Listen statement per included virtual server.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, because of this conflict between multiple virtual
 > servers, I can't do that; I have to manually maintain all these Listen
 > lines.
 > 
 > Does this sound reasonable or am I doing something wrong?  Is there a
 > different/better way to make ports available to my virtual servers?
 > 
 >    - Kevin Wang, kwang@nexprise.com