help with apache

[stan]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 13:34:47 -0700
stan <stanl at cox.net> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> > To: <fedora at lysium.de>; "For users of Fedora"
> > <fedora-list at redhat.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: help with apache
> > 
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:07 +0200, Andreas Bernauer wrote:
> > >> I doubt you'll find anybody who is willing to read your 100+
> > >> lines httpd.conf, find out what the problem might have been and
> > >> give you an advice.
> > >
> > > It is probably best to post the full thing, that way some little
> > > goof outside of where you're checking might get spotted.
> > >
> > > Doing the following to the supplied file gives a much shorter
> > > version to look at, that only includes the active parts of the
> > > file:
> > >
> > >  grep -v "^#" httpd.conf | less -s
> 
> On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:25:48 -0500
> "Scott Berry" <sberry at northlc.com> wrote:
> 
> > Time how would I actually output this command to a file?
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> 
> Instead of using the pipe symbol | to pipe it to less, use the
> redirection symbol > to redirect it to a file.


Just for completeness

grep -v "^#" httpd.conf > your_file.here
> 
> > >
> > > You might see the odd one or two commented-out lines where the
> > > hash was after the first character in the line.  But you won't
> > > omit actual configuration lines which have a comment further into
> > > them.
> > >
>