jmv_deb at nirgal
Aug 4, 2013, 6:42 AM
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How to help users diagnose invalid # in DirectoryIndex?
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People sometimes forget # is a valid character and not a comment starter if not
at the begining of a line.
I've had a report of someone using a configuration like:
DirectoryIndex index.html index.shtml index.cgi index.pl #index.php index.xhtml
then requiring that apache -t should warn about # in the middle of a line.
While I disagree about the # warning, that invalid configuration is not obvious
to diagnose. Error log will contain things like:
[Sun Aug 04 14:26:34.446796 2013] [core:error] [pid 28134:tid 3019877184] [client ::1:59082] AH00125: Request exceeded the limit of 10 subrequest nesting levels due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
I think having a directory index url starting with # doesn't make sense.
Don't you think it would be a good idea to forbid that? [patch attached]
Or at least to issue a warning?
Or at least in a mod_dir check_config hook for -t usage?
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