On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Relevant suggestions for all apache-docco hackers :) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Hubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <dev@httpd.apache.org> > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 6:05 PM > Subject: RE: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/docs/conf ldap.conf proxy.conf ssl.conf > httpd-std.conf httpd-win.conf > > > Hi folks, > > I don't know whether a user's estimation is valuable, but I have to > totally agree with Joshua. I wouldn't like to look over a couple > of different configuration files. > It is also important to keep the httpd-std.conf as short as > possible. Otherwise it is only scaring new users. > Example configurations are also very useful but shouldn't mixed up > with the httpd-std.conf. > I'd appreciate it if the user could access sample configurations > from the corresponding modul's documentation pages, which show how > to use the module's directives in common contexts. > The user can quickly find the necessary information and simply > paste it in the appropriate section in httpd.conf. > >>>From my point of view (and that's definitly a user's view), the > user gets confused as more files are present in ./conf and only > tries to start quickly without having a look into the manual. > In the majority of cases this ends up in spending more time on > the whole task.
Long, long ago, I started working on a Perl doohickey that would take the standard conf file and munge it into a variety of smaller files. The no-comments file. The only-important-comments file. The only-section-headers file. For some reason, I never got done with those, but I have the code lying around somewhere. I will try to pick that project back up, now that I am starting to dig out from under a few other projects. Also, the comments about sample configurations is a really good idea, if they are kept updated. In everyone's opinion, should these be inline in the module documentation itself, or should they be in some sample_conf directory and linked to from hither and yon. I would think that the former would be much more likely to be kept updated. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's Luggage (Charles Dickens) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]