This has been discussed before, and was the original goal for the
configuration tree approach. The decision in the past has always been
that Apache config files are stored text files. If you want to store them
somewhere else, then create a pre-processor to grab the config data from
some other location, and store it in a text file. In fact, this idea was vetoed
the last time Greg Stein and I brought it up. Take a look through the list
archives from just after the London ApacheCon, at about the time that the
util_cfgtree.c file was added to CVS.
Ryan
On Wednesday 15 August 2001 08:34, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Part two in the grand LDAP plan is to support the storing of
> configuration data in an LDAP directory, somewhat along the lines of
> what has been achieved with qmail+ldap+control. This allows multiple
> machines (probably in a redundant configuration) to derive their config
> from a common datasource rather than relying on files on each machine's
> filesystem. It also allows the LDAP schema checking mechanism to do a
> kind of syntax checking on the LDAP config, which ensures that a bogus
> Apache config cannot be applied in the first place - a Good Thing(TM) :)
>
> In order to achieve this technically, I have a number of questions.
>
> It's been a while since I looked at the way the config files are read in
> v2.0 - so my understanding could be way off - however as I understand it
> a config file is opened by Apache, and it is read line by line, feeding
> non-comment lines to be processed by the config subsystem. The Include
> directive is handled roughly as a kind of recursion, where a new file is
> opened and the loop continued.
>
> To support LDAP (and potentially other methods, such as the Windows
> Registry), I propose a new hook. This would call one or more functions
> whose job it is to recognise the filename/urlname of the configuration,
> read that object in, and then render each line of config appropriately
> as it is done now. For example the "file" module would recognise the URL
> "conf/httpd.conf", while the "ldap" module would recognise URL
> "ldap:///blah"; and the "registry" module would recognise the URL
> "registry:///some/key".
>
> A default config file on an Apache system might include the line:
> "Include ldap:///blah"; which includes an LDAP object at that point, or
> Apache could be started with "httpd -f ldap:///blah";.
>
> Does this sound like the right approach?
>
> Regards,
> Graham
----------------------------------------
Content-Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="smime.p7s"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
----------------------------------------
--
______________________________________________________________
Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Covalent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------
