* Joshua Slive ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > On Tue, 28 May 2002, Thom May wrote: > > I'd be quite surprised if anyone in a mass vhosting environment _wasn't_ > > using it, to be honest. Especially the recursion. > > > > This seems like a pretty bad thing to remove. > > Could you provide more details about this? I can imagine some very > limited situations were the recursion might be helpful, but I would expect > it to be very rare. > Our shared servers host around a thousand vhosts each between 4 or 500 users. Recursion allows us to group vhosts by user under a central directory structure - it saves a huge amount of time being able to do this rather than having either one huge httpd.conf or a thousand files in one directory. Also, it allows automated tools to easily and efficiently create and delete users and vhosts.
> Include is really only a convenience to the administrator. It can't be > used for distributed management, because anyone with write access to one > of these directories could easily crash the server at the next restart. > Certainly. As an administrator I'm all for as much convenience as possible ;) -Thom -- Thom May -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <aj> *sigh* you'd think a distribution composed of 6000 packages distributed across 13 different architectures (in various stages between pre-alpha and release quality), maintained by 700 amateurs with often conflicting goals who're globally distributed and have rarely met each other -- you'd think a distribution like that would be simpler...
