>>>>> "David" == David Nicol <davidnicol@(protected):

David> another possibility would be to embed some kind of macro language in
David> apache config file parsing. Perhaps Apache could offer m4
David> preprocessing?

Eww. No. M4 needs to die a timely death.

Template Toolkit is far closer to "sane" for this, and can be embedded
to be used at launch time, as others have already said.

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