On Monday 07 January 2002 10:48 am, Sander van Zoest wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Ryan Bloom wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 06 January 2002 11:55 pm, Sander van Zoest wrote:
> > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: "Ryan Bloom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > I would like to discuss the reasoning behind this change. Why are we trying
> > > > > to overload the meaning of DocumentRoot this way?
> > > > Because it allows the DocumentRoot to be, well, nonexistant.
> > > This is very useful in environments where you want an URI space that
> > > doesn't necessarily line up with anything on a file system.
> > > This would be very useful for things such as mod_perl, XML/XSLT solutions,
> > > RTSP/Icecast servers, etc.
> > Huh? We already have a way to do all of that. In fact, all this does is add
>another
> > way to configure options that already exist.
>
> So, you are saying that I can create an apache httpd daemon where it would never
>make a
> stat(2) in the default DocumentRoot directory?
>
> If so, let me know how, because that would be really useful.
If the modules are implemented correctly, that should just happen with:
<Location /foo/nostat>
SetHandler PerlHandler
</Location>
Ryan
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