I rarely deal with local file inclusion, but when I do I always run into the same problem of finding the httpd.conf file. I need to read this file for several reasons. One is to know where I am (www-root). The second one is to find the path to the log files. Third is to find out if there are any other virtual hosts on the server I don’t know about. So the httpd.conf file is the first I thing I look for, but it can be a pain in the ass to find. Although I have a lot of default paths written down I still have problem finding it sometimes. Even if you find it/them there can still be obstacle in the way. One of them is the damn asterisk (*) sign, Ex: /etc/apache/conf.v/*conf
This tells apache to include every file in the /conf.v/ that ends with a “.conf”, the files can be named anything so it’s just the long an almost impossible task of guessing what the webmaster named them. Anyway what iam getting at is that reading the httpd.conf files is a big step in achieving your goal. I’ll post my list of default paths I have found over the years. Hopefully someone will post a comment with paths I don’t have. Hope this can be to help for someone.

Enjoy!

/www/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/www/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/www/conf/httpd.conf
/home/www/conf/httpd.conf
/home/apache/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost.conf
/home/www/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf
/var/www/conf/httpd.com
/var/apache2/conf/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf
/usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
/etc/apache22/conf/httpd.conf