[philzilla]

Dear Apple,

in future upgrades of your wonderful operating system (OS X), can you please leave my httpd.conf in one piece?

every time i upgrade, you either add stuff, replace it, erase it, empty it, etc.

do it one more time, i'll i'll kick you square in the nuts!

regards,

philzilla

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by philzilla:
Dear Apple,

in future upgrades of your wonderful operating system (OS X), can you please leave my httpd.conf in one piece?

every time i upgrade, you either add stuff, replace it, erase it, empty it, etc.

Apple would tell you that you should not edit it. Instead, you should edit /private/etc/httpd/users/yourusername.conf and put your changes in there.

I'm not saying anyone actually DOES this, but that's what Apple recommends.

[philzilla]

when Apple tell me WHY my httpd.conf was left completely empty after this upgrade (as in 0k, zip, nada, nothing at all), then i might pay attention to what they have to say

Apache wasn't even affected by this upgrade, was it? meddling kids...

[Arkham_c]

Originally posted by philzilla:
when Apple tell me WHY my httpd.conf was left completely empty after this upgrade (as in 0k, zip, nada, nothing at all), then i might pay attention to what they have to say

Apache wasn't even affected by this upgrade, was it? meddling kids...

You mean 10.2.5? Upgrading to it did not move my httpd.conf aside. Maybe you used the combo updater (which would have the 10.2.4 changes in it and would move the file aside)?

[philzilla]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
You mean 10.2.5? Upgrading to it did not move my httpd.conf aside. Maybe you used the combo updater (which would have the 10.2.4 changes in it and would move the file aside)?

yes, i mean 10.2.5, not 10.2.4 (i know what i'm on about). this only happened on my iMac though, not my iBook. even weirder.

[Rainy Day]

Originally posted by Arkham_c:
Apple would tell you that you should not edit it. Instead, you should edit /private/etc/httpd/users/yourusername.conf and put your changes in there.

I'm not saying anyone actually DOES this, but that's what Apple recommends.

Um, well, i do! And it works really well too. I never edit the http.conf and never have any problems with system updates.

Important safety tip: Every file in /private/etc/httpd/users/ is effectively appended to your /etc/httpd/httpd.conf file, even files with suffixes like ".bak", so keep your backup files in another directory, else they are likely to override the changes you're making in your primary file (e.g. my.httpd.conf.bak would load after my.httpd.conf, which might undo the edits you've made and send you off chasing your tail for hours while trying to figure out why the changes you're making don't seem to work properly -- of course i was never caught by this snare! ).

This also means you can name files in this directory anything you please, and are not limited to yourusername.conf, which is merely a convention that may be safely to ignored.

[redJag]

simple solution: back up your conf before doing a system update. i'm not saying anyone actually does this..well except the pros

[philzilla]

i always do, but it's always the last thing i remember to replace... usually when i realise Apple broke it.