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On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:45, Farid Hamjavar wrote:
> I am asking the question above based on the assumption
> that the httpd.conf for web-server-1 and web-server-2 thru
> web-server-N are %100 identical and differ only in the
> occurrence of server name and IP#.

one way is to compile in mod_perl, and use the Perl directive. This
example config would take the servername and ip from the current machine
info (web-server-N):

httpd.conf:
<--snip-->
<Perl>
chomp(my $hostname = `hostname`);
my $ip = join ".", unpack('C4, gethostbyname($hostname));
$Listen = "$ip:80";
$ServerName = $hostname;
</Perl>

the perl configuration directives are pretty powerful...

-jon

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I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but here's a trick I have
used in the past. Works on unix (linux & freebsd, others I'm sure).

Let's say you have three apache headends that all have the same
httpd.conf file info, except for the IP and hostname of the box is
different for each (naturally).

For headend#1 (he1) you might have a line like this in /etc/hosts...
192.128.15.12 he1 www

For headend#2 (he2) you would have this line
192.168.15.13 he2 www

and so on. This enables you to use
<VirtualHost www> in your httpd.conf making them all identical.

On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 15:05, jon schatz wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 14:45, Farid Hamjavar wrote:
> > I am asking the question above based on the assumption
> > that the httpd.conf for web-server-1 and web-server-2 thru
> > web-server-N are %100 identical and differ only in the
> > occurrence of server name and IP#.
>
> one way is to compile in mod_perl, and use the Perl directive. This
> example config would take the servername and ip from the current machine
> info (web-server-N):
>
> httpd.conf:
> <--snip-->
> <Perl>
> chomp(my $hostname = `hostname`);
> my $ip = join ".", unpack('C4, gethostbyname($hostname));
> $Listen = "$ip:80";
> $ServerName = $hostname;
> </Perl>
>
> the perl configuration directives are pretty powerful...
>
> -jon
>
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> "You are in a twisty little maze of Sendmail rules, all confusing."
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