Donna Garverick wrote:
>
> Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> > http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/apache/ covers the permutations of the official
> > HP Apache versions.
>
> ok...so i go to jazz and get the correct version of apache...

What *exactly* did you download from jazz?  I.e. please specify the URL of the
downloaded file.

> and do the install
> thing.  after reconfiguring apache (what fun <sigh>), i start it back up and  *i
> get the default index.html page*  my changed version of index.html was gone.  it
> had been overwritten in the update process.
>
> now, i'm not a web master and i don't play one on tv...but who's not thinking
> clearly here?  me (probably) or hp?  should i not be customizing
> htdocs/index.html??  if so, what's the right way to do this?  or should the update
> process not be over-writing this file?         - d

In response to user feedback such as this, future CSY versions of Apache
starting with 1.3.14 will use a BINDFW-like distribution architecture
(http://www.bixby.org/mark/bindix.html) that won't stomp on your customized
stuff in htdocs.

You will have to copy your customized files over to the new htdocs directory,
but at least they won't be stomped on any more in the old htdocs directory.

As an alternative configuration scheme, modify DocumentRoot to point to
someplace completely different than htdocs, and you won't get stomped on and
will never have to copy.

The moral of the story is be very careful about editing files you receive from
HP, because we reserve the right to overlay them with newer versions.
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