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Jeffrey Cauhape – IT Professional III – Linux and Solaris Administrator Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (775) 684-3804 (office) jpcauh...@detr.nv.gov -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Jung [mailto:rainer.j...@kippdata.de] Sent: Friday, April 5, 2019 1:04 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org; Jeff Cauhape <jpcauh...@detr.nv.gov> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Question about configure not answered in documentation Hi Jeff, Am 05.04.2019 um 20:55 schrieb Jeff Cauhape: > I am guessing the answer to my question is probably “no”, but I’m > hoping > > someone here has a silver bullet. > > We are finally getting our act together and updating our Apache server > instances. > > Our chosen way to do this is as follows: > > The /apps directory holds application software distributions, suche as > > /apps/apache_2.4.25 > > /apps/apache_2.4.37 > > /apps/apache_2.4.39 > > /apps/apache (this is a symbolic link to the current > distribuiton) > > We keep the DocumentRoot directory outside of the distribution tree > because > > when we want to update the server, we don’t want to have to copy the > HTML > > and cgi files. > > Q: Is there some way to pass a parameter to configure to point to a > directory > > outside of the distribution tree? > > For example, if I want our htdocs to go into /etc/html by default? > > I know, we can just go in and edit httpd.conf to do this, but it would > be handy > > to have it point to the right place as part of the build. I have > checked > > https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/configure.html > > and I don’t see anything that indicates that. > > Ideas? In the source distribution there's a file config.layout. Each layout defined in the file has a name and consists of a list of paths to use. You can add you own layout to that file, e.f. a layout named JEFF and then add the configure flag "--enable-layout=JEFF" when running configure. See: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/configure.html I'm not sure whether that suffices to put the manual into a custom directory but you should get close. Regards, Rainer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
