Hi guys,I'm wondering if anybody has done something like this before (it doesn't seem that out of the ordinary to me)?
Our current set-up is a mess and we're trying to fix it, so I'm looking for some best practice or recommended methods to the following:
Essentially we have a "master" publishing server and then a set of development servers and a set of edge browsing servers, all of these boxes will be upgraded from Apache 1.3 on FreeBSD 4.9 to Apache 2.0 on Red Hat RHEL 4.0.
All of our servers use a standard set of shared configurations for site configurations. We then use mod_define and host specific configuration files and pass -D `hostname`to httpd on all boxes to decide what the machines virtual host domain names and document roots should be.
Okay, so say for example on the edge servers we have www.abcd.com/.de/.fr/.it... etc, our developer boxes host <devname>-<locale>.abcd.com (e.g. our perl developer Bob has: bob-main.abcd.com/bob-german.abcd.com/bob-italian.abcd.com).
I've been re-implementing the configurations using mod_macro rather than mod_define like so:
--- www.abcd.com --- <Macro www.abcd.com $server_name $sites_root> <VirtualHost *> ServerName $server_name DocumentRoot $sites_root/www.abcd.com/htdocs Blah Blah Blah.... </VirtualHost> </Macro> Use www.abcd.com bob-main.abcd.com /var/www/vhosts --- www.abcd.com ---But as you see, I've been specifying the values to be inserted into the Macro from the bottom of the virutal site file (I'm just testing out mod_macro on a single test box at the moment).
So far I've considered setting environment variables, however it occurs to me that these are quite hard to version control and aren't "obvious" at a first look. I'm also worried that somebody might change the environment variables by mistake (our Apache user is actually used by real users for various tasks, I also realise that should change eventually).
So has anybody done something like this in the past? What are the recommended options? One other issue I've noticed is that both mod_define and mod_macro do not seem to pass variables onto included files, e.g. if I take the above virtual host and add:
"Include conf.d/share/shared-handlers.conf"If the shared-handlers.conf has any reference to the previously set macro variables these are not able to be used by that file (they are either seen as literally the macro name - i.e. $sites_root or as null), is this an Apache limitation?
I appreciate any tips or suggestions! Jon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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