Motivation The techniques described here are of interest if your httpd.conf contains many <VirtualHost> sections that are substantially the same, for example: NameVirtualHost 111.22.33.44 <VirtualHost 111.22.33.44> ServerName www.customer-1.com DocumentRoot /www/hosts/www.customer-1.com/docs ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /www/hosts/www.customer-1.com/cgi-bin </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost 111.22.33.44> Serve