On 13/03/07, Venkateswara Rao Parimi <parimiv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hello, Is this addressed or any workaround found to define a parameter within config files?
No, it's not addressed and like Dean points out in the message you quoted, doesn't need to be in this way. The question asked here is "can i define variables in the config file to be resolved at server startup". The answer's no, though there are tools like m4 (or any other template/macro solution, ruby irb works well) and modules like mod_macro that can do this. The point being that as there are perfectly decent text munging tools on unix environments there's no point in apache duplicating effort. And besides, a more interesting question is "can i define variables at runtime (yes) and use them in my config (sometimes but not often enough)".
Thanks in advance for the responding! >Yes, Dean, you are allowed to say that. =) > > Brian > >On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Dean Gaudet wrote: > Do I get to say "I told you so" here? > > (For those who've forgotten, I'm referring to my opinion that we shouldn't > have ever introduced this <If> crud, and should have told people to use a > preprocessor like M4, because this is exactly what they're intended to > support... inching bit by bit towards a full config language sucks.) > > Dean > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, David Harris wrote: > > > > > I'd like to be able to define parameters for <IfDefine> directives with a > > directive inside a configuration file.. not just the -D flag from the > > command line. I've looked around in the documentation and I don't see any > > way to do this. Am I missing it somewhere? > > > > If this feature is not in Apache, I think it would be a valuable one to add. > > > > (Just one note to anyone who implements this: RSE has already used the > > directive name "define" with some EAPI module that I got with mod_ssl.) > > > > - David Harris > > Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services > > > > > > >
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