Re: [cobalt-users] Problems with my httpd.conf

[Marco Baurdoux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 25 May 2001 14:59:00 -0400
"Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > My problems is that on a regular basis
> 
> What's a regular basis?
> Does this happen every night when cron runs; does it happen whenever
> you make a change to a site through the GUI; every 15 minutes when the
> ActiveMonitor checks everything out, etc?

Oups sorry.
I meant to say that it doesn't occur on a regular basis. If it would have
been on a regular basis the problem would have been somewhere in a cron script.
But unfortunately this is not the case. :-(
> 
> > the httpd.conf file on
> > one of my machines gets corrupted. It replaces the "e"'s with "d"'s
> > in certain words
> 
> What 'certain' words?
> Do you have special Alias lines or handmade changes that you've put
> into the <virtualhost> blocks? If so, is *this* what is being changed?

It tends to alter the addhandler and rewriteengine  directives in the 
<virtualhost> block. I haven't been able to determine whether it only 
occurs to one virtualhost and therefore is only provoqued by a bizarre
 domain name or whether it is a more general problem.

> 
> Whenever you make a change to a site through the GUI, it will rewrite
> that site's entry in the httpd.conf file. So if it's changes you've
> made that are getting flubbed up, you might consider using an include
> file and putting your changes in there.

I'm a busy testing this solution, but although this will not take down my main apache
if an error occurs within the include file, it will still take
down all my virtualhosts. Unless I would 
make a quick hack on the Addsite cgi to make sure that every virtualhost gets
its own included file. Hum might be actually be a safe solution.

> 
> What's the permissions on the file?
> Are you using anything special to add sites to the machine, like the
> Shell Tools or the Automatic Signup Script?
The permissions are the standard ones provided by the apache group:
644

And nope no additional stuff is being used for the moment. 
> 
> Basically we need more info.  ;)
> 
> CarrieB
> 
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