* Dominic Maraglia; on 06 Nov, 2002 wrote:

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I am running 8.1 to run several virtual domains (apache 1.3). I have run quite a few apache servers before, but I am used to manually managing the httpd.conf file. I am giving SuSE config a

Hello Togan, try -- seems like a decent tool to manage certain

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variables for apache. I have a quick question about the httpd.conf files:

SuSE's documentation states that, if using SuSEconfig, one should not manually edit httpd.conf, as this will cause a failure when running md5check sums. Fair enough. So then, is it safe/acceptable to manually edit the httpd.conf.SuSEconfig?

No it would not make a difference since it will not be parsed. On the other hand you can have couple of options

a) create your config files which include just the changes you want and then mention these config files in the /etc/sysconfig/apache

HTTPD_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES="/etc/httpd/mirrors.conf"

and then run SuSEconfig --module apache

I performed exactly this actions -- I have not touched, at all, any of the default apache conf files. I vi'ed /etc/sysconfig/apache, and added HTTPD_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES="/etc/httpd/virt_hosts"; I also changed the HTTPD_PERFORMANCE=slim to thick. I then ran SuSEconfig --module apache which produced this output: ATTENTION: You have modified /etc/httpd/httpd.conf. Leaving it untouched... You can find my version in /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.SuSEconfig... Including /etc/httpd/virt_hosts.164 ATTENTION: You have modified /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf. Leaving it untouched... You can find my version in /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf.SuSEconfig... ATTENTION: You have modified /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf. Leaving it untouched... You can find my version in /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf.SuSEconfig... Installing new /etc/httpd/suse_include.conf Installing new /etc/httpd/suse_define.conf Installing new /etc/httpd/suse_text.conf Finished. So, I find this very confusing as, in fact, I have not touched any of the above mentioned files. Maybe I am missing something, but this seems odd. Any thoughts? Dominic --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

Hello Joe, On 11/07/2002 04:47 AM, Dominic Maraglia wrote:

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So, I find this very confusing as, in fact, I have not touched any of the above mentioned files. Maybe I am missing something, but this seems odd.

Any thoughts?

Maybe you have updated apache, and the conf files were created with rpmnew extension. Check /etc/httpd. I had similar errors after an update.

Good idea, however I have not updated the apache install. I installed apache, made a few minor changes to /etc/sysconfig/apache, ran SuSEconfig --module apache and no joy. This is rather toubling as this is on a produciton server... Thanks for the input. Dominic --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]