On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:34 -0400, John Hinton wrote:
OK, so you have just chosen to put your vhost confs in an alternate directory. There are sound reasons for doing that, like ease of backups and dumb minded restores that any low level tech could do.
Thank you.
To suggest others follow in your footsteps however is very short sighted.
I have never, not once, suggested others copy my layout.
The two includes in httpd.conf allows both areas to load, but does break 'alternative' installs, such as squirrelmail as just one of many examples (assuming you got rid of the /etc/httpd/conf.d include).
We have no intention of using Squirrel Mail.
So, yum install squirrelmail would not work without customization on your system, along with a number of other system wide tools one might want to run under apache. Python, php, manual, welcome, webalizer, ssl, squid, proxy_ajp, perl, cacti are all examples.
We have no problems running Apache with MySQL, PHP, SSL ...
.... to suggest an alternative area is just off the topic and potentially confusing to those that are trying to follow a step by step procedure down to the letter.
I have never, not once, suggested others copy my layout.
I do recognize the merits of what you are doing.
Thank you.
Paul.