That is a change RedHat made to the script - it isn't in the regular distribution. RedHat explicitly discourages using a non-default-location configuration file.
Ref: https://access.redhat.com/discussions/1605003 - Y On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Darryl Philip Baker < darryl.ba...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > I want to syntax check an alternate configuration file in Apache 2.4 but I > have hit a snag, “apachectl –t –f {full path name}” and “apachectl –f {full > path name} configtest” give me an extra message which I don’t need and > don’t want to see. I looked at the shell script that is apachectl and it > looks like someone got lazy and if there is a second argument it will > always print the warning message. It may be a “feature” but it is a damn > annoying one. Because I’m using RHEL I don’t want to just comment out the > test in apachectl but I’m not sure it is a reportable bug. Opinions? > > > > [root@host build_conf]# apachectl -t -f /etc/httpd/build_conf/httpd.conf > > Passing arguments to httpd using apachectl is no longer supported. > > You can only start/stop/restart httpd using this script. > > If you want to pass extra arguments to httpd, edit the > > /etc/sysconfig/httpd config file. > > httpd: “Here is the error message I am looking for” > > [root@host build_conf]# > > > > *Darryl Baker* > > *Sr. System Administrator* > > Distributed Application Platform Services (DAPS) > > Project Management Office and Enabling Technologies (PMOET) > > *Northwestern* | Information Technology (Formerly NUIT) > > 1800 Sherman Ave., Suite 600 > > Evanston, IL 60201-3715 > > *(847) 467-6674 <%28847%29%20467-6674>* > > www.it.northwestern.edu > > >
