Have you trying writing a small wrapper scrip that passes the conf directory using the -d flag?
Kind regards ~Jorge On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Voellinger, Sandy < sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz> wrote: > Good Afternoon - > > Apache Version: httpd-2.2.15 > Linux Version: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) / > 2.6.18-164.el5xen > > I'm attempting to compile a version of apache_2 httpd binary that is > agnostic of the directory it's run from and will look for its configuration > files local to the binary's run location. (Example: ./httpd will look for > httpd.conf local to my run location reguardless of prefix). > > At compile time, I'm required to provide a --prefix= directory or configure > will assume that I want it installed by default in /usr/local/apache. I've > tried to compile using --prefix=./ but this fails with " configure: error: > expected an absolute directory name for --prefix: ." > > I know I can create an alternative directory structure and use the -d and > -f flags with ./httpd to identify alternate prefix directory and httpd.conf > locations at runtime but I want to avoid having to pass these variables. > > Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. > > Cheers- > Sandy > > > > > Sandy D. Voellinger > Neustar, Inc. / Applications Support and Systems Administration, Operations > & Engineering, DECE > 46000 Center Oak Plaza Sterling, VA 20166 > Office: +1.571.434.3412 Mobile: +1.703.568.3450 Fax: +1.571.434.XXXX / > sandy.voellin...@neustar.biz / www.neustar.biz > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
