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I messed up my Apache config file, httpd.conf.

I followed this article, http://emresaglam.com/blog/1035, to try and find the original httpd.conf inside Install OS X Mountain Lion.app.

The article says that the Bom files ("Bill of Materials"), "describes what is in this pkg file and where they will be written to."

Install OS X Mountain Lion.app -> Contents\SharedSupport\InstallESD.dmg -> Packages\***.pkg -> Bom

However, the Bom files don't seem to be a complete listing. I extracted the contents of the Payload for Essentials.pkg and there was more to it then listed in its Bom.

Is there a better way to navigate and find the file I need from the installer, besides extracting the contents of each pkg file's Payload? Any tips or resources would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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I think maybe you are not findind the file because it is not in the distribution. I suspect that some other program builds it when needed. As evidence, I offer the fact that pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.Essentials | grep httpd.conf does not print anything. – Harald Hanche-Olsen Dec 13 '12 at 17:39
@harald-hanche-olsen Thank you! I'm so stupid for not looking to see what else pkgutil does. I found httpd.conf in BSD.pkg using pkgutil --payload-files ... | grep httpd.conf. If you post your comment as an answer, I'll mark it as answered, thanks! Also, I'm curious where I can find the file you refer to in your comment, com.apple.pkg.Essentials. – flackend Dec 13 '12 at 18:49
I posted a somewhat different answer, as I discovered more information. Sometimes, it seems that computers are designed to make us feel stupid … – Harald Hanche-Olsen Dec 13 '12 at 20:20

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When I first commented on your question, I was hindered by not having discovered httpd.conf on my own system. Now I have found it, however, and I can find out what packages owns it as follows:

; pkgutil --file-info /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
volume: /
path: /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

pkgid: com.apple.pkg.BSD
pkg-version: 10.8.0.1.1.1306847324
install-time: 1352382423
uid: 0
gid: 0
mode: 644

Note: com.apple.pkg.BSD is a package name, not a filename. You can find a list of all packages that pkgutil knows about by running

pkgutil --packages

Also note that running the above command on /etc/apache2/httpd.conf does not yield a useful result, because /etc is a symbolic link to /private/etc.

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