Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-26 Thread Glenn Strauss
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Brad Nicholes wrote: I am in total agreement in fact my guess would be that most organizations will eventually split up the httpd.conf file to fit whatever needs they have. But I would imagine that no two organizations split up the .conf file in the

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Burgoyne
I'll throw in my two cents. As part of a large multi group organization (that I am sorry to say does not get along all that well) I have, for security reasons, split up our configuration file into about 20 seperate files. Certain people or groups have access to certain things that I am

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-25 Thread Brad Nicholes
Therefore I think there are certainly valid reasons to split up the conf file, and from a usability perspective, it may be a bit more confusing upon an initial install, but the benefits down the road were immense for me. Mind you, being in an organization where 12 people of varying degree of

new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Joshua Slive
A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ What I've tried to do: - Strip httpd.conf to only the config directives that almost everyone needs to worry about. - Put everything else in an extra/ directory, with commented-out Include directives

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Querna
On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ Looks pretty good. I think this is a good direction to move. Any reason the Netware MPM part cannot be removed from near the top?

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:12:30 -0400 (Est (heure d'été)), Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ it looks good to me; I guess all those little pieces need extra/foo-std.conf so that users will pick up

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:08 PM 9/24/2004, Paul Querna wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ Looks pretty good. I think this is a good direction to move. Any reason the Netware MPM part cannot

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 01:08 PM 9/24/2004, Paul Querna wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ Looks pretty good. I think this is a good direction to

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 02:27 PM 9/24/2004, you wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: At 01:08 PM 9/24/2004, Paul Querna wrote: On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 13:12 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: A straw-man proposal for a new config organization is at http://www.apache.org/~slive/newconf/ Looks pretty good.

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Nicholes
Maybe I am jumping in here out of turn, but let me ask the obvious question. Why would we want to split the standard base httpd.conf file up into multiple files? Doesn't this end up just confusing the average user? One thing that I always tell new users of Apache is that rather than trying

Re: new config organization for 2.1

2004-09-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Brad Nicholes wrote: Maybe I am jumping in here out of turn, but let me ask the obvious question. Why would we want to split the standard base httpd.conf file up into multiple files? Doesn't this end up just confusing the average user? One thing that I always tell new