Did Gentoo alter apache2?

mrjohnston · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 28

Hello,
I have a perhaps stupid question, but it has been bugging me. I recently setup three apache2 (2.0.47) configurations, one on slack 9.1, one on windows, and my personal one on gentoo. My setups all involved virtual name based hosts. But the only setup that gave me problems was gentoo's.

Here are my questions:
1) Why does gentoo break the httpd.conf file into three files? Didn't apache merge the 3 files they uses to use way back with the early 1.3's into one? Why split it back up?

2) Normally I just use NameVirtualHost * , but on gentoo I get an error about "using a * port". The asterisk binds to the ip address on other systems I used for configuration. The same goes for the VirtualHost directive needing to be *:80 to work as well. This makes things a bit more complicated and was kind of annoying.

Everything else seems ok for now, and everything else on my box runs fine. I just want to know why someone messed with the apache2 package so it builds different;y from normal, and is there an easy way i can get a normal config (one I would get if I installed fro source myself). I know I can do that and inject the package, etc., but I like having everything neat, hence I use gentoo, a large meta distro, so i don't have to build my own extras.

Don't mean to piss anyone off by being stupid, but I would appreciate a little help understanding

mrjohnston
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gojuka · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

I agree. It annoys the hell out of me that there are multiple config files. httpd.conf is not that big or complicated that it needs to be split. In fact, splitting it just confuses things. A single file is much easier.

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Dalrain · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:03 am Post subject:

Just a comment on 2) there, I had that issue as well, and simply not starting the server with -D SSL fixed that up. (I'm not using it...yet)

If that's an option for you, it might help with that. Good luck

mrjohnston · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 28

Gentoo uses the prefork patch for some reason I have figured out a bit ago. My question is this, is there a way to disable it? Can we make prefork a USE flag? I tried to diable it in the ebuild and weird stuff happened (make worked, but apache didn't afterwards). If this is a possibility many user would relish this I think

mrjohnston
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