What are the numbers following Apache settings output paths?

[Shaun ONeil]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 06:06:00PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Hello, I would appreciate some help understanding the output of Apache -S
> 
> $ apachectl -S
> /usr/sbin/apachectl: 87: ulimit: error setting limit (Operation not permitted)
> VirtualHost configuration:
> wildcard NameVirtualHosts and _default_ servers:
> *:443                  is a NameVirtualHost
>          default server foobar.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/foobar-ssl:2)
>          port 443 namevhost foobar.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/foobar-ssl:2)
>          port 443 namevhost alice.com
> (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/alice.com-ssl:2)
> *:80                   is a NameVirtualHost
>          default server localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)
>          port 80 namevhost localhost (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default:1)
>          port 80 namevhost foobar.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/foobar:1)
>          port 80 namevhost alice.com (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/alice.com:1)
> Syntax OK
> 
> Question: What is the :1 or :2 at the end of each config file listed,
> for instance:
> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/foobar:1
> 
> I am writing a Python script to parse this output, and I don't want to
> disregard this information without understanding it. Thank you!
> 
> -- 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
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>

They're just line-numbers.  They were much more useful when apache
configs were one big monolithic file - but now, you would usually expect
to find each site declaration start at the start of its own file.

-- 
Shaun