>Number: 861 >Category: config >Synopsis: NCSA Compatibility with VirtualHost >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 13 14:20:01 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2.1 >Environment: Any OS, any version >Description: NCSA's <VirtualHost> directive allows for a feature I suggested to Brandon Long a few years ago where one can specify the severity of a failure in parsing the <VirtualHost> section. This is the optional "Optional" designator:
<VirtualHost address Optional> If provided, any error during parsing is totally ignored and the server starts up normally. If Optional is omitted, any error causes the server to fail startup and doesn't run at all. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: This feature gives the admin the ability to control startup errors on a host-by-host basis. Since we run our servers with vhosts all configured as Optional (and that behavior is Apache's default) we could omit the Optional designator from our configs. But if a site needs control over both behaviors they're out of luck >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
