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Note Sameer's Configuration.tmpl change. (oh yeah and the rest of this
just removes trailing whitespace, something that bugs me.)
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*** CHANGES 1997/04/27 06:55:51 1.251
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*** 1,10 ****
Changes with Apache 1.2
!
*) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
[Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
*) Fix graceful restart on architectures not using scoreboard files
(it is still broken on scoreboard-file architectures).
Eliminate many signal-related race conditions in both forms of
--- 1,14 ----
Changes with Apache 1.2
!
*) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
[Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
+ *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
+ than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy.
+ [Sameer Parekh]
+
*) Fix graceful restart on architectures not using scoreboard files
(it is still broken on scoreboard-file architectures).
Eliminate many signal-related race conditions in both forms of
***************
*** 32,38 ****
[Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
*) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
!
*) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
*) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
--- 36,42 ----
[Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
*) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
!
*) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
*) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
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*** 62,76 ****
*) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
!
*) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
[Dean Gaudet]
!
*) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
[Ralf S. Engelschall]
!
*) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
[Mitchell Blank Jr]
--- 66,80 ----
*) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
!
*) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
[Dean Gaudet]
!
*) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
[Ralf S. Engelschall]
!
*) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
[Mitchell Blank Jr]
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*** 90,96 ****
request. [Dean Gaudet]
*) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
!
*) Use /bin/sh5 on ultrix. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
*) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
--- 94,100 ----
request. [Dean Gaudet]
*) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
!
*) Use /bin/sh5 on ultrix. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
*) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
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*** 312,318 ****
*) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
- Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
! - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
- remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
- Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
--- 316,322 ----
*) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
- Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
! - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
- remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
- Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
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*** 336,342 ****
*) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
! *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
*) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
--- 340,346 ----
*) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
! *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
*) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
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*** 386,392 ****
[Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
*) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
! as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
[Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
*) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
--- 390,396 ----
[Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
*) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
! as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
[Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
*) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
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*** 471,477 ****
*) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure*
(removed)
[Jim Jagielski]
!
*) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
overflows. [Marc Slemko]
--- 475,481 ----
*) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure*
(removed)
[Jim Jagielski]
!
*) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
overflows. [Marc Slemko]
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*** 548,558 ****
server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
*) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
! found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
*) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
! status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
*) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
--- 552,562 ----
server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
*) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
! found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
*) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
! status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
*) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
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*** 577,583 ****
*) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
!
*) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
--- 581,587 ----
*) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
!
*) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
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*** 681,687 ****
in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
!
*) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
--- 685,691 ----
in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
!
*) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
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*** 699,705 ****
4) Some code cleanup and clarification
*) mod_include.c bugfixes:
! 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- 703,709 ----
4) Some code cleanup and clarification
*) mod_include.c bugfixes:
! 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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*** 733,740 ****
*) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
!
! *) Updated Configure for ...
OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
*-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
--- 737,744 ----
*) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
!
! *) Updated Configure for ...
OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
*-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
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*** 746,752 ****
*) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
! *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
SCO Unixware (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
--- 750,756 ----
*) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
! *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
SCO Unixware (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
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*** 793,799 ****
*) Bugs which were fixed:
a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
! c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [EMAIL PROTECTED]
d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changes with Apache 1.1b4:
--- 797,803 ----
*) Bugs which were fixed:
a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
! c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [EMAIL PROTECTED]
d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changes with Apache 1.1b4:
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*** 825,834 ****
*) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
various security holes found and that we could no longer support
! them.
! *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
! instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
*) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
--- 829,838 ----
*) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
various security holes found and that we could no longer support
! them.
! *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
! instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
*) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
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*** 843,849 ****
*) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
URL's.
! *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
special URL, a la mod_status.
*) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
--- 847,853 ----
*) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
URL's.
! *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
special URL, a la mod_status.
*) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
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*** 857,863 ****
*) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
module.
!
*) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
value. [Alexei Kosut]
--- 861,867 ----
*) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
module.
!
*) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
value. [Alexei Kosut]
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*** 925,937 ****
Changes with Apache 1.0.2
! *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
*) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
[David Robinson]
! *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
--- 929,941 ----
Changes with Apache 1.0.2
! *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
*) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
[David Robinson]
! *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
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*** 960,966 ****
initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
[Ben Laurie]
! *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
--- 964,970 ----
initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
[Ben Laurie]
! *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
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*** 1049,1055 ****
*) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
! *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
*) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
--- 1053,1059 ----
*) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
! *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
*) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
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*** 1159,1196 ****
*) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
*) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
!
*) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always
check
the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
up to it. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
!
*) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
"/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
*) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
[Florent Guillaume]
!
*) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
--- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
(using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
[Roy Fielding]
!
*) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
[James Cloos]
!
*) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
Behlendorf]
!
*) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
[Roy Fielding]
!
*) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
--- 1163,1200 ----
*) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
*) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
!
*) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always
check
the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
up to it. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
!
*) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
"/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
*) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
[Florent Guillaume]
!
*) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
--- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
(using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
[Roy Fielding]
!
*) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
[James Cloos]
!
*) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
Behlendorf]
!
*) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
[Roy Fielding]
!
*) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
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*** 1198,1204 ****
ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
[Robert Thau]
!
Changes with Apache 0.8.10
--- 1202,1208 ----
ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
[Robert Thau]
!
Changes with Apache 0.8.10
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*** 1244,1250 ****
*) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
!
*) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jaglieski]
*) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
--- 1248,1254 ----
*) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
!
*) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jaglieski]
*) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
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*** 1332,1340 ****
It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
! spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
! *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
*) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric
Hagberg]
--- 1336,1344 ----
It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
! spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
! *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
*) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric
Hagberg]
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*** 1413,1419 ****
*) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
! *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark
Cox]
*) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
--- 1417,1423 ----
*) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
! *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark
Cox]
*) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
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*** 1422,1428 ****
*) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
! *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
*) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
[Randy Terbush]
--- 1426,1432 ----
*) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
! *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
*) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
[Randy Terbush]
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*** 1483,1489 ****
impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
!
*) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
[Cliff Skolnick]
--- 1487,1493 ----
impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
!
*) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
[Cliff Skolnick]
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*** 1506,1512 ****
*) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
in some places...). [Mark Cox]
--- 1510,1516 ----
*) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
!
*) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
in some places...). [Mark Cox]
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*** 1522,1528 ****
believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
! required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
*) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
--- 1526,1532 ----
believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
! required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
*) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
