On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 07:15 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Nov 13, 2009, at 06:39 , Igor Galić wrote: > > > > > It's been a long time now, but I still remember Rich asking for a > > Apache httpd starting *without* a config. > > I'm not sure this is easily doable, but I'm pretty confident that > > we can slim down the basic config (httpd.conf) to a very minimalistic > > level and put all the fluff in extra > > Of course it's doable. Easily? I don't know. But certainly doable. You > define and document default values for everything, and then config > directives are only ever needed when things differ from the default. > Lots of products do this. > > The default for LoadModule could be that you load all modules in > HTTPD_ROOT/modules unless there are LoadModule directives specifying > otherwise. We could (and should) protect <Directory /> by default, and > allow access to HTTPD_ROOT/htdocs by default. And so on. Much of the > stuff that's in those configs you referenced can already be omitted > and fall back to default values.
+1, and can we _please_ default RewriteEngine to "on". Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services Manpower www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg
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