----- "Graham Dumpleton" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 5, 2010, Niklas Edmundsson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, August 5, 2010, Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 03 August 2010, Dan Poirier wrote: > > > > I'd like to propose that in 2.3/2.4, we fail startup for any of the > > virtual host misconfigurations for which behavior is undefined but > > right now we only issue a warning. > > > > <snip> > > > > Perhaps warnings around bad MPM configuration can be reviewed as > well. > > > > From memory it doesn't at the moment warn you when something like > > > > StartServers is set over what it can be based on MaxClients and > > ThreadsPerChild. I think it may just silently reduce the value. > Since > > MPM settings are often misunderstood, better hints about bad > > configuration there would be useful. > > > > > > +1 on both suggestions. This would be a good time to change/improve > on this front. > > Another thing which would be nice related to MPM settings and other > core settings is the ability to do: > > httpd -t -DDUMP_CORE_CONFIG > > The idea being that in doing this it would log what all the MPM > related settings are, ie. The final result of taking user settings, > applying defaults where no user supplied settings, plus any > adjustments due to stupid settings. Add to that critical core > settings > which come into play as to performance of a site such as Timeout, > KeepAlive, KeepAliveTimeout, ListenBacklog, EnableSendFile etc. +0.5 Maybe it would be more sensible to allow for something like dovecot and postfix have: postfix can dump all of the config (usually not very useful) or just the one that deviates from the default values. > This way when trying to assist someone to understand whether their > configuration is appropriate one can get all the key important > settings easily and not have to get them to troll through their > configuration files, work out whether they are even being included, > adding defaults for things not set etc. > > All up this would certainly make the job of helping newbies work out > how they screwed up there site by changing these settings in the > first > place, a lot easier. > > Graham Bye, -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/
