Bug#350285: apache2-common: there should be a possibility to access the parsed configuration
Package: apache2-common
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Hi,
the init script goes to some lengths to find out about the contents
of the PidFile directive. It currently supports one-level includes,
but no deeper include recursion and no conditionals. Implementing this
outside apache is tedious, error prone, and it is actually
re-implementing code that is already present in the apache
code itself.
Upstream should be asked to deliver a command line option that makes
apache parse the configuration (honoring -D, -d, -f, -C and -c) and
dump the parsed configuration to stdout, optionally with a possibility
to select only parts of configuration to be printed.
exim 4 does this very nicely, refer to
/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz's documentation of the -bP
option for inspiration.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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