On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Rich Bowen wrote: > OK, another pet peeve of mine. I know that there are historical reasons > for having some directives start with a lowercase letter. But is there > really any reason to continue doing this? Directive parsing is not > case-sensitive, and we can change the documentation without changing any > code. I'm proposing that we start using Allow, Require, Deny, and Order, > so that all directives have the same capitalization. Consistency is a > Good Thing. >
I agree. Something that is missing from the docs (or, at least, I haven't found it) is a discussion of the basic format of the configuration files and how they work. There is a couple paragraphs in http://www.apache.org/docs/invoking.html but not much detail. For example, I don't know if it states anywhere that directives are not case-sensitive, or that comments are not allowed on the same line as directives. (In fact, I believe there are even some examples in the docs of comments and directives on the same line.) Joshua
