Hi Danek,
are you guys doing any work to integtare Solaris's
Network Cache Accelerator http://www.sun.com/software/white-papers/wp-snca/snca-wp.pdf
with Apache 2.0 ???
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danek Duvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thu, May 03, 2001 4:12 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PATCH] option to remove default listener
>
>
> When we packaged up Apache for delivery with Solaris, we had
> a requirement
> that it not be run by default at boot-time unless it was explicitly
> configured by an administrator. We did this by moving the
> configuration
> file out of place, and putting a few lines in the boot script
> to check for
> the placement of the config file.
>
> The reason for all this rigmarole was so that if a customer upgraded a
> system without Apache to a version of the OS which came with
> Apache, then
> it wouldn't clobber any other web server they might happen to have
> installed and configured.
>
> We are considering using Apache to host an IPP server, and
> this kludge no
> longer works the way we'd like. Essentially, we need a
> solution whereby
> Apache will not listen on port 80 unless it is explicitly
> configured to do
> so. Since currently it will create a server on port 80 if
> nothing else is
> configured, we need for this behavior to change.
>
> I'm attaching a patch which disables this creation of a
> default listener by
> passing httpd a new config define -- NO_DEFAULT_LISTENER.
> With the patch,
> unless someone has specified a Port or Listen directive (or
> otherwise added
> a listener), apache will read its configuration files and keel over.
>
> Please consider this for inclusion into Apache 2.0.
>
> Thanks,
> Danek
>
