On 6/3/09 7:50 PM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 1. There are many and large and complex configurations out in the world.
Which is exactly why I want/need a better way to do them. I'm currently
using a template system to generate them. However I wind up with dozens
(and dozens) of vhosts that sometimes only vary by a statement or too.
A contrived example:
-- lots of stuff
if r.hostname == "www.domain.com" then
-- a couple of things specific to this domain
elseif r.hostname == "www.domain2.com" then
...
Of course, this example may could have a little lua glue to handle this
situation.
Also, I'm not just talking about lua being the config language, I want lua
to "drive" the httpd process. Ie, the above code gets ran on every request.
> 2. I admit that some improvements are needed. How about an approach that
> allows
> to embed a macro / scripting language into the current configuration system
> that allows you to do more advanced things if you need to.
If we provided enough glue within our modules for lua, this this would be
fairly easy. I already fake this a bit with mod_lua and handlers that do
most of the work.
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Brian Akins
Chief Operations Engineer
Turner Digital Media Technologies
