On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Bryan McQuade <bmcqu...@google.com> wrote: > I propose providing an additional httpd.conf in the svn trunk and as > part of future Apache releases that enables modules and directives > that are commonly recommended on Apache performance tuning websites. > This includes mod_deflate, mod_expires, etc. This will allow power > users to continue to start with the current httpd.conf while typical > users can just use the well optimized configuration.
An additional httpd.conf doesn't sound valuable to me. What slice of non-savvy users would scrutinize an alternate config file, can replace the config file of their webserver, isn't using a webserver packaged by their OS, and wouldn't have just gotten the same information today from the manual and 400,000 other websites? There's currently no <ifModule> bloat in the default conf, but you're welcome to submit a patch that adds one for deflate or expires (latter seems more unwise to me). See the "supplemental configuration" section of the generated config. This doesn't address mass-vhost companies failing to allow deflate because it's not in the no-args HTTPD ./configure , which sounds far-fetched to me. I can't recall a users@ or #httpd user implying being subjected to such a thing with their own build or with cheap hosting. -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
