Alvaro Lopez Ortega wrote:
John Hampton wrote:
<snip>
> Request "/projects/.+/login" {
> Auth {...}
> }
>
> Request "/projects/.+/" {
> Handler cgi {
> Scriptalias /usr/share/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi
> Env TRAC_ENV_PARENT_DIR "/var/projects/trac"
> }
<snip>
Yeah, that configuration should work with the new Request entry
support. I'm quite confident it is a good thing to have. The only
thing left is to make a decision on how to manage the precedences
between directories, extensions and requests.
Well, I think, as I said in my previous email, that if we adopted the
original precedence scheme, the cases where we may have conflicts could
be solved by using Request entries.
I can't really see if that is going to create more problems then it solves.
Setting precedence via order of appearance in config file seems pretty
good, except it could get very confusing when using includes. For
instance, if I set an Extention in my cherokee.conf and then set
something that conflicts in my mods dir or my default site or some other
dir that gets included, then it'll take the Extention set in
cherokee.conf. I guess you can just make it clear in the documentation
that that's a bad place for a setting like that. It's not really a
problem that can't be solved, just one that seems like it will be a
point of confusion as to why things seemingly aren't working.
The only other thing that I see with order of appearance, is that it's
basically impossible to set global defaults and then override them
later. Perhaps if you go for order of appearance, it would be better to
say that later entries have higer precedence. That way you can set the
extention first, and then override anything needed later. General to
more specific.
Thinking about it some more, if order of appearance is used (and I'm not
against it) I definitely think that the higher precedence should be set
for things that appear later in the file.
BTW, it seems like the configuration scheme we are proposing is far
more readable than the Apache one. Grand. :-)
Oh hell yes! The configuration syntax for Cherokee was one of the main
things that made me want to drop apache.
-John
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