Re: [users@httpd] Commom Apache configurations shared between live and development servers?

[Krist van Besien <kr...@gmail.com>]

On 3/2/07, jon@fanti.co.uk <jo...@fanti.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm wondering if anybody has done something like this before (it
> doesn't seem that out of the ordinary to me)?
>
> Our current set-up is a mess and we're trying to fix it, so I'm
> looking for some best practice or recommended methods to the following:
>
> Essentially we have a "master" publishing server and then a set of
> development servers and a set of edge browsing servers, all of these
> boxes will be upgraded from Apache 1.3 on FreeBSD 4.9 to Apache 2.0 on
> Red Hat RHEL 4.0.
>
> All of our servers use a standard set of shared configurations for
> site configurations. We then use mod_define and host specific
> configuration files  and pass -D `hostname`to httpd on all boxes to
> decide what the machines virtual host domain names and document roots
> should be.
>

I had a similar problem to solve. Multiple web servers, development
servers etc. But I solved it using mod_perl. With mod_perl you are
very flexible.

Krist



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