That is a good point. Makes sense. I just used it as a reference to see why
I broke it when I did a compile :-) Now I understand the --sysconfdir so
good to know going forward.

Regards, Richard

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Fred Gleason <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 9/14/14, 12:51 50, Richard Gorbutt wrote:
>
>> Look at the <Directory near the top. In my case it's "/var/www/rd-bin"
>>
>> Then go back to the rivendell source code.
>>
>> Step 1. ./configure --libexecdir=/var/www/rd-bin    (or whatever your
>> Directory is from the rd-bin.conf)
>> Step 2 & 3 same as before (make etc.)
>>
>
> Don't do this -- you will end up going in a circle!  That value at the top
> of that file is *determined by* the argument given to --libexecdir.
>
> When running Rivendell's 'configure' script, you need to tell it two
> things about the system's Apache setup:
>
>         --libexecdir -- Where to put the web content (both static and CGI
> scripts)
>
>         --sysconfdir -- Where to put Rivendell's configuration information
> that tells Apache how to process the elements specified by --libexecdir
>
> Unfortunately, distros vary widely about where they put these sorts of
> items.  For RHEL 6, the appropriate values are:
>
>         --libexecdir=/var/www/rd-bin --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf.d
>
> OTOH, for certain versions of OpenSuSE (through 11.2) it was:
>
>         --libexecdir=/srv/www/rd-bin --sysconfdir=/etc/apache2/conf.d
>
> Bottom line, you just need to know how your distro of choice has packaged
> Apache.  It's not something that Rivendell's configuration script can
> autodetect.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
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