hi all... with all this talk of changing DocumentRoot semantics, I wonder if I might pose a question...
has any thought been given to making DocumentRoot writable? Or, conversely, is there any reason _not_ to make DocumentRoot writable at request time? that DocumentRoot is not a per-request attribute has been on my mind lately - all FrontPage derivitaves require that DocumentRoot be properly set, which means that stuff like mod_vhost_alias and other similar mod_rewrite mass vhosting schemes require restarts and a DocumentRoot addition each time a new vhost needs to be supported. a mutable DocumentRoot would mean I (and many other shops that need to support FrontPage) could add vhosts at will without restarting the server (at the cost of additional overhead, of course). I could have a considerably smaller httpd.conf, which is always nice. with mod_perl, we get this ability, but I'd love to have it in C in order to speed things up. just curious... --Geoff
