You know, that makes sense, except, when you may have multiple instances on a server and want to keep those separated. This is still Relative to the ServerRoot, which points to the binaries. What we need is some way it can be relative to the location of the parent of the conf directory where httpd.conf lives. Kind of like Tomcat's concept of CATALINA_HOME and CATALINA_BASE. :-)
Just my .02 worth. Dream * Excel * Explore * Inspire Jon McAlexander Senior Infrastructure Engineer Asst. Vice President He/His Middleware Product Engineering Enterprise CIO | EAS | Middleware | Infrastructure Solutions 8080 Cobblestone Rd | Urbandale, IA 50322 MAC: F4469-010 Tel 515-988-2508 | Cell 515-988-2508 jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> > Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2022 1:28 PM > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question about slotmem-shm- log file, etc. location > > Have you tried using DefaultRuntimeDir > (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/cor > e.html*defaultruntimedir__;Iw!!F9svGWnIaVPGSwU!s1MtryTq7iWIm62jxvC > WYGG9fmIt79giC5WhKWWWTB0ttC2MRtagTdKqEs4FfQ7gLBKA50H2wdJQ9iw > BmOQNEac$ ) > > Regards > > RĂ¼diger > > On 6/23/22 7:40 PM, jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com wrote: > > Hello all. > > > > I have a question and haven't been able to find an answer yet on the > > interwebs. I ran into an issue while setting up mod-proxy-http with the > balancer option and when I restarted Apache, it failed with this message: > > > > > > > > "AH02611: create: apr_shm_create(/apps/apache/2.4.53/logs/slotmem- > shm-p18b8fc23_3.shm) failed" > > > > > > > > Turns out I didn't have a logs folder under 2.4.53. Looks like it > > looks at the ServerRoot as to where the logs directory is located. We > > run our apache servers with separate Instance directories and > > centralized binaries to make upgrades, etc. easier. Is there any way to > specify something like a slotmem-file-target-location directive in the > httpd.conf of the instance, or anything like that? I did see some rumblings > around this from back in spring of 2012, but nothing since. > > > > > > > > Any assistance would be great. > > > > *Dream * Excel * Explore * Inspire* > > > > Jon McAlexander > > > > Senior Infrastructure Engineer > > > > Asst. Vice President > > > > He/His > > > > > > > > Middleware Product Engineering > > > > Enterprise CIO | EAS | Middleware | Infrastructure Solutions > > > > > > > > 8080 Cobblestone Rd | Urbandale, IA 50322 > > MAC: F4469-010 > > > > Tel 515-988-2508 | Cell 515-988-2508 > > > > > > > > jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com > <mailto:jonmcalexan...@wellsfargo.com> > > > > This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > > If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the > > addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based > > on this message or any information herein. If you have received this > message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and > delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. > > > > > >