Re: [PATCH 1/2] t/lib-http.sh: Restructure finding of default httpd location

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Tarmigan Casebolt
[off-list ref] wrote:

uname might not be the best way to determine the default location for
httpd since different Linux distributions apparently put httpd in
different places, so we test a couple different locations for httpd,
and use the first one that we come across.  We do the same for the
modules directory.

Perhaps testing the distribution and looking in the known location for
that distribution then? That said, going through a list of well known
locations should work too.

+for DEFAULT_HTTPD_PATH in '/usr/sbin/httpd' '/usr/sbin/apache2'
+do
+       test -x "$DEFAULT_HTTPD_PATH" && break
+done

Unfortunately this leaves DEFAULT_HTTPD_PATH as the last item in the
list even if the test does not pass. You can add an empty item to the
end of the list if you want to do this way.

+for DEFAULT_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH in '/usr/libexec/apache2' \
+                                 '/usr/lib/apache2/modules' \
+                                 '/usr/lib64/httpd/modules' \
+                                 '/usr/lib/httpd/modules'
+do
+       test -d "$DEFAULT_HTTPD_MODULE_PATH" && break
+done

Ditto.

j.