Bug#349709: apache2-common: please add more flexibility to apache2ctl

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: apache2-common
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

apache2ctl has, for a non-conffile script, a lot of things hardcoded
without giving the local admin possibilities to interfere.

I would like to submit a patch which allows:

  * passing arguments to the actual daemon
  * overriding the HTTPD, LYNX, STATUSURL and ULIMIT_MAX_FILES
    environment variables from
    * the startup environment and/or
    * the environment variable file
  * reading environment variables from a file different from
    /etc/apache/envvars

These changes will be relatively minor, but are necessary to use
apache2ctl to invoke multiple instances of apache2, for example in
setups where different web applications get different apache2
instances for security purposes.

Please indicate whether a patch like this would have a chance to be
included into the package.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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