I have a bizarre issue: I have an applescript (actually inside automator, but all the same) that creates an entry in the vhost file for apache to add a virtual server. The script works fine and adds the entry, which is properly formatted and closed:
Here is the weird part: When I restart the server, it gives me a syntax error and fails to restart. It keeps telling me the <virtualhost> is not closed, but it is. The vhost file looks fine and complete (I have been doing this for years). The ODD this is that if I edit ANYTHING on the file and resave it, it works fine, and by ANYTHING I mean ANYTHING....delete an empty space, retype any character....in another words, it won't work unless I edit it manually and resave it. No weird hidden characters, no estrange file encoding (Western MacOS Roman with Unix LF), no missing tags....the file as changed by applescript looks pristine, but it simply will not work. And it is weird because the manual edit can be anywhere in the file, even on prior entries not added by applescript. I can even just delete a character or empty space, retype it leaving the file identical as before I edited it, save it and it works.
The applescript is authorized to write with permissions and throws no errors. Works fine. I even tested removing the "*" and adding the 127.0.0.1 instead....no dice.
Bizarre.
Anyone has any ideas what this could be? I am at a lost. An yes, I guess I could manually edit the vhost file and resave, but....it sort of defeats the purpose of having an applescript generate the file for me.
Code:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /Users/Klima/Sites/testsite
ServerName testsite
ServerAlias *.testsite
</VirtualHost>Here is the weird part: When I restart the server, it gives me a syntax error and fails to restart. It keeps telling me the <virtualhost> is not closed, but it is. The vhost file looks fine and complete (I have been doing this for years). The ODD this is that if I edit ANYTHING on the file and resave it, it works fine, and by ANYTHING I mean ANYTHING....delete an empty space, retype any character....in another words, it won't work unless I edit it manually and resave it. No weird hidden characters, no estrange file encoding (Western MacOS Roman with Unix LF), no missing tags....the file as changed by applescript looks pristine, but it simply will not work. And it is weird because the manual edit can be anywhere in the file, even on prior entries not added by applescript. I can even just delete a character or empty space, retype it leaving the file identical as before I edited it, save it and it works.
The applescript is authorized to write with permissions and throws no errors. Works fine. I even tested removing the "*" and adding the 127.0.0.1 instead....no dice.
Bizarre.
Anyone has any ideas what this could be? I am at a lost. An yes, I guess I could manually edit the vhost file and resave, but....it sort of defeats the purpose of having an applescript generate the file for me.
