----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Apache Docs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: Re: allow, require, deny, etc
> 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 > >
