Updates undoes my settings

General Discussion
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Whenever I upgrade the system, I have to redo the settings for virtual-hosts to work again in my development environment.

Is there somewhere I can edit that is fixed?

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Virtual hosts… are you running Apache ?

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Yes, both apache and nginx, I’m using to work.

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/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/apache2.conf
/etc/httpd/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Which naming/dir are you using ?

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/usr/share/defaults/ for all, it was already by default

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The -X flag makes Apache run in the foreground, check stderr

You can also run Apache or nginx under strace to get some more feedback :

strace -o trace -f -s 1024 apache2 -X -d $(pwd)/[ApacheRootDir]/ -f  (pwd)/[ApacheRootDir]/[ApacheConf]
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What is that for exactly?

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Tracing possible errors / getting some more verbose output.

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https://prefetch.net/articles/debuggingapache.html

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Oh, I see, thank you for your attention, but what I would really like to know is what I can do so when I upgrade the system it will not undo my settings.
I’ve used several linux distros, but this one is different, I’m very lost just in that.

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Yes, don’t edit files the files where they are installed as they will be overwritten by design always.

I suggest you read man stateless to learn more about the concept of statelessness (i.e. config changes should be made in /etc). There is even a section on nginx in there.

https://docs.01.org/clearlinux/latest/guides/clear/stateless.html also covers it with apache as the example.

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Obrigado! Era isso que eu estava querendo saber!

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