[plug] Apache configuration & Linux Standard Base?

[Denis Brown]

Daniel,

I believe that in the early days Apache obeyed the NCSA standard whereby 
the configuration files were a set of three.  At some point in the 
development there was a move to flesh out the httpd.conf file and I think 
that holds true to this day.  As for file placement, my only experience is 
with Debian as the distro and compiling Apache from source so I used the 
Apache suggestions for file locations of the binaries, confs, etc.

I could be entirely wrong (flame suit = on) but many distros may be trying 
to package Apache (etc) in a plug-and-play mode with consequent variations 
on the naming conventions and locations for config. files.  If you're 
wanting standardisation I'd be on side with the "boring and predictable" 
brigade and do an install from source following a thorough read of the doco.

HTH,
Denis

Daniel wrote in part:
Hi Plug, from the little I know different distributions appear to use 
different files to set up Apache:
Redhat - original 3 files cut down to one (httpd.conf)
Mandrake - commonhttpd.conf, httpd.conf
Debian ?
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