Re: [htdig-dev] Re: Red Hat

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

As far as I know, Apache has always allowed putting all access.conf
and srm.conf directives right in httpd.conf.  The 3 file setup was a
carryover from NCSA httpd, but I don't think Apache 1.x ever enforced any
context-specific stuff in any of the files.  With Apache 2, they've done
away with the deprecated files.  I think the portable way to configure
Apache would be to put everything in httpd.conf, but put out empty
srm.conf and access.conf files just to keep Apache 1 happy.

According to Lachlan Andrew:
> Excellent work, Jim!
> 
> Could you please mail a list of the lines you commented out?  It would 
> be really nice to have  make check  work "out of the box", and I 
> think most of the lines in *.conf are not necessary for any platform.
> 
> The first warning was due to a (trivial) bug, and I'll also get rid of 
> the last.  The other two seem harmless and platform-dependent, so 
> I'll leave them for now.
> 
> Thanks for your detective work :)
> Lachlan
> 
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 12:04, Jim Cole wrote:
> > I tested Friday's CVS on a Red Hat 8 system.
> >
> > I ran rundig against www.htdig.org using robotstxt_name:
> > master-htdig and did not encounter any noticeable problems. The
> > database sizes seemed reasonable and were searchable.
> >
> > Four of the tests fail outright and numerous errors are reported.
> > Most of the problems are due to the fact that the httpd.conf file
> > used is not entirely compatible with Apache 2. By merging
> > httpd.conf, access.conf, and srm.conf into a single file and then
> > commenting out everything that 'make check' complained about, I was
> > able to get three of the four problematic tests to pass.


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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)