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[TAC One <tacone@xxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your bug report.
I think  latter way is surely the better and more debianish way. Also numbering should be the way to go.

I think it will take us a while to implement this, but we will very likely do that.
Detecting multiple vhosts and offering user to split in multiple files would be good, but not a cure for every desease, as some linux application stuffs configuration outside <virtualhost> tags. At some point, manual intervention would be necessary anyway.

Marking this as wishlist.

** Changed in: rapache
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Support virtual host order
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241021
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Status in rapache: Confirmed

Bug description:
Supporting many virtual hosts on the same server often requires use of wildcards. In this case, the order of virtual hosts matters. For example, a web application which serves multiple domains simultaneously might be configured with a ServerName of * and if other domains are also to be served by the same Apache server they must be loaded prior to this one.

This requirement may be even more necessary on a development machine where many different sites must be active which wouldn't exist on a single production server.

One solution to forcing order is to place all virtual hosts in a single .conf file. Another is to prepend an order code to the vhost conf files (e.g., 1-siteone, 2-sitetwo) so they are parsed in the required order.

Rapache obviously does not (yet) support the former. I see only a single vhost in Rapache for my single .conf file with many vhosts defined. Perhaps the latter method can be used if order is specified.