Make a directory like /etc/cobbler/templates and put your httpd.conf in there. Then you could do a command like this: cobbler system edit --name webserver1 --template-files="/etc/cobbler/templates/httpd.conf.webfarm=/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf"
Also note you have to manually rsync /etc/cobbler/templates. Cobbler replicate isn't intelligent enough to replicate templates and there is no standard cobbler template directory right now.
thanks for this - makes sense i think so let me give it a try
tom