On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-15] André Malo wrote:
A >30 KB default config, which nobody outside this circle here really understands, isn't helpful - especially for beginners.
I agree that the current config file is too big and ugly. But let's be a little careful here. There needs to be a balance. Detailed config files do help users understand the capabilities of the server and make it much easier to activate features.
So I suggest we talk about specifics, rather than just trying to reduce the size. For example:
- Can we get rid of the non-unix mpm stuff from the default config. (Don't mean to offend os/2 and beos (and possibly netware), but they are really superfluous and confusing for most people.)
- Can we get rid of most of the AddLanguage/AddCharset directives? They are a constant source of bug reports, and I really can't imagine that many people use them as-is. (Do people really name their files index.html.utf32be.el?)
The above two changes alone would get rid of almost 200 lines.
In the same cycle we could remove the docs from the default distribution and start distributing them officially as separate packages. (But we could distribute a separate config snippet for the multilingual docs, which can be included in the httpd.conf). The more translations we add, the less applicable is it to include the whole doc tree.
+1
Joshua.
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