Re: conditionally create a Virtual Host?

["Nigel B. Peck" <nigelbpeck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019 at 7:21 pm, Heather Lotz <knot22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Greetings,

In my development environment on a Windows 10 PC I have added the following to Apache's configuration files -

To httpd.conf:

Listen 8080

To httpd-vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:8080>    

    DocumentRoot "Z:/files/xampp/htdocs"

<Directory "Z:/files/xampp/htdocs">

 Options Indexes

 Require all granted

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Note that Z: is mapped to an external storage device.

With this setup, Apache successfully accesses C: on port 80 and Z: on port 8080.  However, if the external storage device is not attached to the computer, Apache will not start.  Is there a way to check if Z: is present, and only create the virtual host if that device is plugged in so that Apache always starts?  If so, how can this be achieved?

I reckon you could wrap the <VirtualHost> in an<If> that checks for the existence of z:/ using an appropriate operator from:

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/expr.html#unnop

Nigel B. Peck

Web Technologies and Linux Admin Mentor

https://codementor.io/nigelbpeck