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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