Yes, in fact this is what I'm doing as a work around, but because of the deployment tools and level of automation we're trying to put in place I need to figure out how to compile apache to simply look relative to the binary's location for its configuration files.
Thanks - Sandy From: Jorge Schrauwen [mailto:jorge.schrau...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 5:01 AM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] compiling a portable Apache build for Linux Have you trying writing a small wrapper scrip that passes the conf directory using the -d flag? Kind regards ~Jorge On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Voellinger, Sandy <sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz<mailto:sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz>> wrote: Good Afternoon - Apache Version: httpd-2.2.15 Linux Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) / 2.6.18-164.el5xen I'm attempting to compile a version of apache_2 httpd binary that is agnostic of the directory it's run from and will look for its configuration files local to the binary's run location. (Example: ./httpd will look for httpd.conf local to my run location reguardless of prefix). At compile time, I'm required to provide a --prefix= directory or configure will assume that I want it installed by default in /usr/local/apache. I've tried to compile using --prefix=./ but this fails with " configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: ." I know I can create an alternative directory structure and use the -d and -f flags with ./httpd to identify alternate prefix directory and httpd.conf locations at runtime but I want to avoid having to pass these variables. Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers- Sandy Sandy D. Voellinger Neustar, Inc. / Applications Support and Systems Administration, Operations & Engineering, DECE 46000 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 Office: +1.571.434.3412 Mobile: +1.703.568.3450 Fax: +1.571.434.XXXX / sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz<mailto:sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz> / www.neustar.biz<http://www.neustar.biz> --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org<mailto:users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org<mailto:users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org<mailto:users-h...@httpd.apache.org>
