Re: [PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-26 Thread Jim Jagielski
After 1.3.27 please :) I want as little new stuff in between now and the release (hopefully *very* soon) to avoid problems and complications ;) -- === Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|]

Re: [PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-26 Thread rbb
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: In the department of scratching old itches - any strong objections to me adding the following patch which allows one to do things like # httpd.conf ServerRoot ${HOME}/apache Port ${PORT:=80} ErrorDocument 500

[PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
In the department of scratching old itches - any strong objections to me adding the following patch which allows one to do things like # httpd.conf ServerRoot ${HOME}/apache Port ${PORT:=80} ErrorDocument 500 Please contact ${CUSTOMER} and then [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-25 Thread André Malo
* Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: In the department of scratching old itches - any strong objections to me adding the following patch which allows one to do things like # httpd.conf ServerRoot ${HOME}/apache Port ${PORT:=80} ErrorDocument 500 Please contact ${CUSTOMER}

Re: [PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-25 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, [ISO-8859-1] André Malo wrote: I'm note sure, but I'd guess this may cause conflicts with mod_rewrite. Mod rewrite uses % rather than $ for variable names. It does use $1, $2.. for back references. Which is not a problem as it is not followed by a {. It also uses the

Re: [PATCH] add simple ${ENV} substitution during config file read

2002-09-25 Thread David Burry
This may be confusing because people may begin to expect it to do the substitution at request time in certain cases instead of only at server startup time Admittedly that would be almost like turning every directive into mod_rewrite, but... an env var is an env var, many things are