Apache2 and virtual hosts

[Madison Kelly]

E K wrote:
> You can delete the soft link in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled which is a
> link to the actual configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available
> if there is a problem with a configuration which you can check using
> apache2ctl -S. You can restore the link on the next edit after making
> sure that the configuration is alright.
> 
> Apache loads the sites in the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory.
> 
> That is how I do it on Ubuntu.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> EK

This would work, true. Though it relies on apache2ctl being correct, 
which as John V.O. mentioned, isn't always the case. If there were an 
undetected error I could recover from the crash by deleting the symlink 
to the offending VH container file and restarting as you suggest, but 
that still means that Apache2 would go down for X amount of time 
(however short that may be).

This is what I want to avoid, and why I keep coming back to trying to 
find a way to tell apache2 not to fail all on one bad config. :)

Sorry for the stubbornness! :P

Madi
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