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[Bill O'Connor]

"Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:

> 2008/5/20 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> Again, yes.  Apache is less of a problem than some servers, in that I can
>> hand edit the configs and test them before restarting Apache, but I'd be a
>> lot happier with a tool that didn't let me write invalid config files in
>> the first place.
>
> It would not be difficult to write a program that parses httpd.conf
> and warns about an invalid file. It could probably even be integrated
> into VI. Other config file types (fstab, xorg.conf, etc) could be
> added as well. I'll add it to my list of projects...

You have apachectl configtest to use as a starting point for that.