On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Ed Grimm wrote: > That's a good strategy (assuming a missing if in there somewhere). It > can be augmented with the tactic of "check for a running apache, see > where it gets its config file from, and parse the config file" to get > the initial guess. (Note that I wouldn't want this to be a final guess; > I'm using mod_perl in a virtual host config; the "main" apache config > doesn't use it, and has a completely unrelated docroot > (/usr/local/apache/htdocs as opposed to /home/appname/public_html))
Yep, been there, done that ;) The installer I mentioned for WeBoard UX was really pretty smart. It would look for the Apache binary (and ask if it couldn't find it), figure out if it had mod_perl (and ask for a different one if that binary didn't have mod_perl), check the Apache version, check the mod_perl version, find that Apache binary's config file (and ask...), figure out what user & group that Apache ran as (to change certain permissions), tweak the Apache and config file to load WebBoard. And that's just what it did for Apache. It did a lot of other install/config tasks as well. Hmm, I really feel that this has gotten quite off-topic. Maybe I should create a "Perl installer" project on Sourceforge that'd attempt to take these types of things and create various useful modules for them, like Installer::Apache, Installer::Alzabo, Installer::RDBMS::MySQL, etc. -dave /*================== www.urth.org we await the New Sun ==================*/
