m.watts at eris
Nov 13, 2009, 4:20 AM
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On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 07:15 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 06:39 , Igor Galić wrote:
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> > It's been a long time now, but I still remember Rich asking for a
> > Apache httpd starting *without* a config.
> > I'm not sure this is easily doable, but I'm pretty confident that
> > we can slim down the basic config (httpd.conf) to a very minimalistic
> > level and put all the fluff in extra
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> Of course it's doable. Easily? I don't know. But certainly doable. You
> define and document default values for everything, and then config
> directives are only ever needed when things differ from the default.
> Lots of products do this.
>
> The default for LoadModule could be that you load all modules in
> HTTPD_ROOT/modules unless there are LoadModule directives specifying
> otherwise. We could (and should) protect <Directory /> by default, and
> allow access to HTTPD_ROOT/htdocs by default. And so on. Much of the
> stuff that's in those configs you referenced can already be omitted
> and fall back to default values.
+1, and can we _please_ default RewriteEngine to "on".
Mark.
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