On 27 Jan 2014, at 9:58 AM, Thomas Eckert <[email protected]> wrote:
> When doing this please keep in mind there is a huge amount of users out there
> who are not developers and who will struggle with something like
>
> > <LocationMatch ^/foo/(?<bar>[^/]+)>
> > Alias /var/lib/%{env:MATCH_BAR}/baz
> > …stuff...
> > </LocationMatch>
Why would they struggle any more than this, which is what they would need to do
for the same config today?
AliasMatch ^/foo/(?<bar>[^/]+) /var/lib/${1}/baz
<LocationMatch ^/foo/(?<bar>[^/]+)>
…stuff...
</LocationMatch>
> As long as they are reusing the same code under the hood, I don't think there
> is anything wrong with having redundant directives whose only purpose is to
> have easier-to-read configurations.
They're not reusing the same code under the hood, the code that performs the
Location handling and the code that matches the Aliases are different code, and
in today's code, the Alias is almost always followed by a Location directive
matching the same URL space.
That said there are two problems being solved here.
One is a performance problem, which is a nice but not critical. The second more
important problem is that I am hearing from more and more people that httpd has
too many directives - they look at httpd and they don't know where to start.
Existing configurations as I said will still work, they would just be
deprecated. But the long term goal would be to remove the duplicated
functionality and slim down the server, with a trimmer, cleaner server in a
v3.x timeframe.
Regards,
Graham
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