On Nov 13, 2009, at 06:39 , Igor Galić wrote:
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
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.
-- Rich Bowen [email protected]
