On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 12:49:16PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > Greg, please take a step back and ask yourself: what *harm* > does it do for modules to know the DocumentRoot? If it does no > harm, then standing in the way of others just because you can't > think of an application *does* do harm.
There is no problem with it in principle, but the current implementation is broken. It is too tied to the core's idea of the URI->filesystem mapping and modules are unable to fix that when they know better (mod_vhost_alias, mod_userdir, ...). Tony.