Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:
> I'm for the patch, but I'm the guy that committed this for 1.3.
>
> This makes admin a lot simpler. I want UserDir, I enable the module
> and leave the default config. I don't, I comment out the module. It's
> kinda the point of IfModule, no?
>
> It also means you can use apxs's ability to enable/disable a module
> without crapping out the server.
>
+1 from me as well
makes life SO much easier when you want to unload un-nessecary things
like mod_dir/autoindex from your configuration
> -wsv
>
>
> On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Joshua Slive wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Tim Wilde wrote:
>>
>>> I'm reposting the attached patch yet again, which adds various
>>> <IfModule>
>>> sections to the default httpd.conf to allow proper function without
>>> changes to httpd.conf if various modules aren't enabled. Sent this
>>> twice
>>> within the last two months now without any response. Makes me wonder if
>>> anyone cares that the default config file just plain doesn't work in
>>> many
>>> configurations. This would be an ideal and simple patch to put into
>>> 2.0.40. Patch applies cleanly to docs/conf/httpd-std.conf.in from the
>>> 2.0.39 release.
>>
>>
>> Personally, I have mixed feelings about this patch, which is why I
>> haven't
>> committed it myself. Yes, it does make the default config file more
>> generally useful with different configurations. But it also makes the
>> default config file less of a good example. The <IfModule> wrappers have
>> a real tendency to confuse people, because they get the idea that you
>> MUST
>> place your directives inside them.
>>
>> So, for example, I see people asking
>> "Why does this fail silently with no errors?
>> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteRule / /elsewhere
>> </IfModule>"
>> The answer is that they don't have mod_rewrite. If they had left out the
>> <IfModule> lines, they would have gotten a useful error message. With
>> them included, they are just confused.
>>
>> The default config file works with the default install. If you modify
>> the
>> default install, you also need to modify the default config. I'm
>> comfortable with that. If you change the installed modules without
>> modifying the default config files, you are asking for confusion.
>>
>> Others may have other opinions, and I have no intention of vetoing this
>> patch.
>>
>> Joshua.
>
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