This directory contains support files that are used when working on the website. Files here are not published on the website.
We have configuration in static/.htaccess that occasionally we need to update. Our preview environment is hosted on the build server (Jenkins) and for the local preview Hugo is acting as a web server. So with that there is no way to test changes to static/.htaccess file before it is applied to the production website. For this we have a httpd.conf file here that mimicks the production environment locally. In conjuction with running HTTP server in a Linux container it can be used to test changes to static/.htaccess.
Use like this from the root of the git repository after building the website (yarn build):
$ docker run -it --rm -p 80:80 -p 443:443 \ -v "$PWD/public":/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/:Z \ -v "$PWD/support/http":/support:Z \ httpd:2.4 /bin/bash -c "cp /support/* /usr/local/apache2/conf/ && httpd-foreground"