Bug#234489: 'Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled' a bit too inclusive.
Package: apache2-common
Version: 2.0.48-7
Severity: normal
Hey. I'm finding myself running into a problem a lot, and it's a bit of
a pain. I edit a file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/, and keep it open
to test a change with apachectl configtest (for easy undoing). However,
I get the following:
[ dbharris@defiant: ~/ ]$ sudo apachectl configtest
Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/.people.circainformation.com.swp:
Invalid command 'b0VIM', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
[ dbharris@defiant: ~/ ]$
Rather a bit irritating, that's Vim's swapfile. There might be Emacs
files scattered about, as well. That being said, I think including .*
(shell glob, not regexp) is probably not a great idea - prefixing files
with a single period is a common way to stop things from looking at them
automagically.
As such, I'd suggest 'Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled' be changed to
'Include /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/[^.]*', perhaps 'Include
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/[^.#]*'. I use the former, works great.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-linode23-1um
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apache2-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.6.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libapr0 2.0.48-7 The Apache Portable Runtime
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-10 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-6 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libldap2 2.1.25-1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-5 SSL shared libraries
ii mime-support 3.25-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii net-tools 1.60-9 The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii openssl 0.9.7c-5 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii ssl-cert 1.0-7 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-4 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
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