On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:16 AM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Today I learned that ServerAlias is not permitted in global scope. > while writing tests in a different framework for $bigco. > > I would like to allow them in trunk. They are normally not needed as > aliases are really only a way to pick the best NVH from a set of > virtual host sharing an TCP address specification -- and if the global > config is the best TCP match, there is only one. But this would allow > the StrictHostCheck "don't respond to unknown hostnames" to add stuff > when NVH'es are not (totally) used. > > I plan to keep it in trunk. Any concerns?
Moments later, I learned that this might not be a very good idea after all, as the aliases are a little too ingrained in the NVH gorp in vhost.c. I will probably just doc that if using this feature, one should cover listening ports with vhosts or deal with a single name [servername]
