Apache configuration files

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 10, 2008, at 19:21, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 06:32:12AM -0700, Chris Janton said:
>> I get "bit" by this occasionally.
>>
>> Upgraded apache from 2.2.9 to 2.2.10
>>
>> The configuration files in
>>
>> 	/opt/local/apache2/conf/extra/
>>
>> were all replaced.
> [...]
>>
>> It's no fun when the conf files get overwritten by an upgrade...
>
> Sounds like you hit ticket #8605:
>
> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/8605>

I don't think it's a lack of consensus; just a lack of someone doing  
it. The apache2 port does, after all, already handle this for the  
httpd.conf; it just now needs to also handle it for the extra conf  
files.


> Unfortunately, doesn't seem like any consensus for how to properly  
> deal with
> it.  Best would be to implement #2365:
>
> <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/2365>

That would be nice for a general case.