I am running a small network of web servers (Apache 2.2/2.4) using essentially the same CGI infrastructure on different machines (and under different domains). The function of each site depends on rather lengthy .htacces files with only minor differences (site names, file locations, URL bases, etc). To reduce the need for redundant edits I have to somehow synchronize the .htaccess files among the servers despite the minor differences.
When it comes to the CGI source code, I can do this rather easily using SVN and Makefile. In particular, here I have a Makefile distributed along with the code via SVN and a non-versioned Makefile.local that is included by the Makefile and defines the local settings. I'd really like to do something similar with the .htaccess files, but I am unaware of a way to include local settings.
Is it possible to "load" local settings into an .htaccess file, may it be as an "include" from another file or as a way to define local environment variables elsewhere? Or is there some other way how this is usually handled for .htaccess files?
Many thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.
