I think cPanel makes enough of a mess to httpd.conf to not notice when we mere humans make adjustments

It is pretty flexible. We've hacked away at httpd.conf, installed extra modules and settings, changed the IPs it listens on and so on, and it hasn't complained nor reverted the changes

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