On 2013-05-21 23:52, Sean Beck wrote:
Sorin,
Is there a way to figure out the name of the config file in code so I can
log it? Or even just the path to where it is.
Also, I'm confused because you said there is no such thing as a
module-specific configuration file, but then you said configuration files
can be split per-module. Does Apache just read out of httpd.conf on
start-up and in httpd.conf I would use the Include directive to include my
different configurations for each module?
Yes, exactly. Apache knows its config file, either because it's
hard-coded when apache was compiled, or because the hard-coded path was
overwritten by command line arguments (the -f switch). Then, the "root"
config file, so to say, contains Include directives to other files. But
it's only syntactic sugar for conceptually separating configurations for
the benefit of the server administrator. Apache has no way of mapping
the included files to modules.
I don't think there is a way to get the name of the included files. And
I don't think there is a way either to get the name of the root
configuration file, as far as I---briefly---looked in apache's sources.
Sorin
Thanks
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Sorin Manolache <sor...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2013-05-21 21:36, Sean Beck wrote:
Hi all,
I have written a module and now would like to log the name of the actual
config file being used by the module (there will be multiple modules on
the
server with their own config files. I looked through
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/**2.4/developer/modguide.html<https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/modguide.html>but
am still
struggling to understand how Apache knows what the config file is for each
module and how I can check what the name of the actual name of the file is
for each module.
There is no such thing as a module-specific configuration file. In
principle a single file could contain the configuration for all modules.
The configuration files are split per-module for convenience only, in
order to be able to activate modules independently.
The configuration _directives_ are defined per-module (but actually
nothing stops you from defining the same configuration directive in several
modules).
Apache defines a directive called "Include". This directive allows for the
splitting of the entire configuration into several files. But from apache's
point of view there is no correspondence between the files into which the
configuration is split and the modules that define the directives found in
those files.
Sorin
