Re: [cpx] [CPX] - httpd.conf with windows EOL -> cpx munch the cpx.conf

[ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Meier wrote:

> At 10:31 AM 05/13/2005, you wrote:
>
>> We've had this happen from time to time in many other situations.
>> Folks will edit httpd.conf with notepad and ftp it back (fortunately
>> this can't happen anymore with root ftp disabled). Our stock answer
>> has been "don't do that".
>>
>> It causes problems for many more things than just cpx. Perhaps the
>> thing to do would be to change restart_apache to check for it or
>> something. We'll give it some thought.
>
>
> You must be kidding... Apache works fine with httpd.conf with Windows
> or Unix line delimiters....
>
> It is generally extremely trivia to strip off/ignore a CR if found in
> a line. In C, C++, Perl, etc. takes about one statement...
>
> 98% of the Unix utilities seem to handle it fine.
>
> What is the issue with CPX not being able to parse a file with CRLF?
>
> Bill

i  will surely not go as far as 98%, i think this is lower than that by
a fair margin :)

. In all case i think  the restart_apache is a good idea, as well as in
the perl script that restart apache on the cpx too. The don't do that
part is true but as basic users have to edit it to add  serveralias so
we open the hole where, by murphy's law, all will fall ;-)

  And too bad apachectl configtest do not catch this (and it should as
apache itself on some versions had issues handling windows EOL
particulary on log directives). Perhaps now apache handle it cleanly.

best regards,
Ghislain.

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