[#HHQ-51] Apache configuration properties need OS/distro specific defaults

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Apache configuration properties need OS/distro specific defaults

Created: 16/Mar/06 11:14 AM Updated: 30/Jun/08 12:06 PM

Component/s:

Plugins

Affects Version/s:

None

Fix Version/s:

3.2.4

Environment:

Linux

Last comment:	22 weeks, 4 days ago
Resolution Date:	15/Jun/08 08:44 PM

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The apache plugin has defaults for the following configuration properties relative to the discovered installpath:
program - bin/apachectl
pidfile - logs/httpd.pid
server.config_track.files - logs/error_log
server.log_track.files - conf/httpd.conf

These defaults are reasonable when apache is built from source, but most OS distributions of Apache httpd define their own layout.
Manually changing these values is cumbersome.

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Ryan Morgan - 15/Jan/08 11:32 AM

As discussed during today's stand up meeting, move into 3.2.1 fix version.

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Ryan Morgan - 21/Feb/08 10:02 AM

Move to 3.2.2.

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Kashyap Parikh - 13/Mar/08 11:04 AM

Moving to 3.2.3

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Doug MacEachern - 15/Jun/08 07:30 PM

Implemented a mechanism for the defaults to be defined in etc/plugin.properties:
http://svn.hyperic.org/trunk/plugins/apache/etc/plugin.properties?root=Hyperic+HQ&view=co

Note that even if we were to implement an apache config parser:
- The path to apachectl is not defined in the .conf nor is it in the process table
- The path to the .conf file itself would either be in the process arguments or compiled into the binary
- The only software that can properly parse httpd.conf is httpd itself at runtime with its modules loaded

Will be adding a few more distros and more testing before closing this out.

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Doug MacEachern - 15/Jun/08 08:44 PM

Tested with distros listed the plugin.properties link.

3.2.4:
Revision: 9802
Added:
   branches/HQ_3_2/plugins/apache/etc/plugin.properties
Modified:
   branches/HQ_3_2/plugins/apache/src/org/hyperic/hq/plugin/apache/ApacheServerDetector.java
   branches/HQ_3_2/plugins/apache/src/org/hyperic/hq/plugin/apache/ErsApacheServerDetector.java

4.0.0: r9799..r9801