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.