[users@httpd] Re: modified apache...

[Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org>]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, bruce wrote:

> basically, we need to be able to install a small apache footprint on a

Check out the (dynamic) modules and/or a static compile using hte
confoigure API (do a ./configure --help for a list). You can strip it down
very very far.

> number of servers. we'd like the apache apps to communicate back/forth with
> a master app to access any config information. (ie, we don't want the apache
> app to read the traditional httpd.conf file)
..
> has anyone any knowledge of any app that's modified apache to do this.

Using the cmdline -c and -C you can configure apache a little 'on the fky'
- note that you can repeat them. Problem is - you still need an empty set
of CONFIG_FILE's, such as httpd.conf. So the trick is at Make or configure
time is to use the -D overrides of TYPES_CONFIG_FILE, SERVER_CONFI_FILE,
etc. and point htem to /dev/null.

I've done several in-memory config's for specific projects in the past,
occasionally tieing it in to SNMP - but this is rarely waranted - writing
out a (temporary) httpd.conf file again-and-again is not that hard. And
feel free to moan tha t it is not proper SNMP or BNF parsable :-)

Dw

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