I am a mod_perl programmer, and I also manage my company web server. We are growing and constantly adding new features to our products. I find myself making change to the httpd.conf very frequent. Sometimes, I change httpd.conf on the development server, and later forget to apply the change to httpd.conf on staging server, and production servers. I wish to have the httpd.conf in my company cvs repository and get pushed out along with the rest of the application code. Unfortunately quite a few things in httpd.conf stand in the way, such as hardcoded paths, and port numbers. (We are in an environment where all developers have to develop on one development server, and each developer is assigned a port number, and run a separate apache process listening on that port.) I also want other developers to be able to check in changes to the httpd.conf file.
If I set up environment variables to hold these hardcoded paths, and port numbers, can I use these environment variables in httpd.conf?
If I am to write a module in C to handle this, where can I start? What book do you recommend?
Khai
