it should honour this configuration and not ignore it, issuing a redirect, despite the existence of DocumentRoot/foo/dirname. This is how it worked in Apache-1.3 and appears to be broken in Apache-2.0.
Apache 1.3 gives precedent to directories over locations. I'm not clear how you reached that conclusion, but I just tested it on 1.3 (and 2.0), and in the presence of a collision, the directory is returned not the location.
What you might be suspicious of is that 2.0 may invoke the handler associated with the location and not the default handler. In 1.3, mod_mime would not run the SetHandler line if it was a directory - see mod_mime.c:626. However, in 2.0, the SetHandler enforcement was taken out of mod_mime and placed in core_override_type in core.c:3222 which *does* act upon a directory. Therefore, under 2.0, the SetHandler line is enacted, where in 1.3, it was not.
I think the proper thing may be to have core_override_type follow the 1.3 semantics and punt on a directory. But, I'm not sure. Thoughts? -- justin
