On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Sander Temme <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 8, 2010, at 4:21 AM, Jorge Schrauwen wrote:
>
>> Note: This proposal is for trunk, not 2.3/2.4 or earlier.
>
> Two are both the same until we fork a 2.3 branch.
>
I was under the assumption the 2.3-branch got forked when the -alpha's started.
So I guess it's for 2.3/2.4 also then :)
>> I propose provide a recommendation for providing examples.
>>
>> conf/examples/{protocol}/mod/{module_name}.con and
>> conf/examples/{protocol}/mod/{module_name}/*
>
> I agree, but with fewer subdirectories.
>
> Rename the "extra" directory to "examples", and we'd be pretty much done.
>
> We could drop a httpd-minimal.conf in conf/ with the content below, like
> below.
>
> I like the 403 response: better than "it works". Red Hat does something
> similar but with a much longer document... your proposal would be short
> enough to access through curl. Of course, it's "Apache HTTP Server" without
> the D.
>
Oops! Originally it read "HTTPD Server" but that sounded to vague. The
conf might need some additional fixes to work under windows.
> Edit the default httpd.conf to have the same 403 default response.
>
>> Additional modules could also drop examples in the correct directory.
>
> Not sure. If you go and build your own server, httpd and others, you should
> also be writing your own config. The default config should have two
> purposes: 1) to start a bare bones server to smoke test your build and 2) to
> be edited to fit a deployment.
>
I guess 2) can have a few different targets, by just renaming extra to
examples. Would you exclude providing a few flavors of default configs
to choice from?
> S.
>
>> Maybe we could also replace the default httpd.conf with one telling the user
>> to pick one from conf/examples/http and adjust it to there needs.
>> Ofcourse some good default configurations need to be provided in that
>> directory.
>>
>> Example of a default configuration that will tell users to configure httpd:
>> ---
>> Listen 80
>>
>> User apache
>> Group apache
>>
>> LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
>> LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
>>
>> <Directory />
>> Deny from all
>> Options None
>> AllowOverride None
>> </Directory>
>>
>> ErrorDocument 403 "<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Apache HTTPD
>> Server</title></head><body><h2>Apache HTTPD is working correctly</h2>Please
>> configure your server.</body></html>"
>> ---
>>
>> The above provide a secure default that will only display a message.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Jorge Schrauwen
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