Re: httpd.conf path substitution

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:58:09AM +0200, Markus Rosjat wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> its not really an issue but I noticed if I want to substitute a path
> for the tls key or cert I get a syntax error from httpd -n
>
> So is there some special syntax for this or is it simply not
> possible to do something like
>
> tls_key ="/path/to/key"
> tls_cert ="/path/to/cert"
>
> server "domain.tld" {
>
> tls {
> key $tls_key
> certificate $tls_cert
> }
>
> }


Make sure that "/path/to/{ key,cert }" exists.

Why not type "/path/to/{ key,cert }" inside the tls declaration?
You don´t have to use these filenames multiple times in httpd.conf.
Only once. So why do you want to define a macro for them?