2009/6/4 Akins, Brian <brian.ak...@turner.com>: > On 6/3/09 7:50 PM, "Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group" <ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com> > 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.
Would mod_macro help. http://www.coelho.net/mod_macro/ Graham > 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. > -- > Brian Akins > Chief Operations Engineer > Turner Digital Media Technologies > >
