From: "Danek Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 5:52 PM
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 03:28:36PM -0700, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>
> > That doesn't make any sense. If you don't want to start httpd, then
> > don't run httpd at all.
>
> We have no way of knowing whether or not httpd should be started from
> outside Apache. Certainly we know that it *shouldn't* be started if the
> config file isn't in place -- like I said, that's what happens in Solaris
> now.
>
> But because we want to use Apache for things other than a web server,
> Apache needs to come configured and ready to run, but enabled only when
> there are services which have been configured to run. For my purposes,
> this means that Apache's configuration tells it to listen on some port, and
> nothing but running Apache can tell me that.
Danek,
It sounds like you would be better off installing the 'stock' apache, but
setting up a second .conf for the 'system services' you want to add, running
them to their own logs/scoreboard/pidfile.
That way, the user doesn't mangle those services, and the two never interfere
with one another.
Bill
