I tend to think that the Right Thing is to mention that each directive has 
documentation which says what its AllowOverride needs are.

On Jul 19, 2011, at 7:59 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote:

> Hello, folks;
>    I wanted to plant a bug in everyone's ear about an issue I came across. 
> I'll open a formal bug and a final list of what is and is not allowed when 
> time permits. I have found that the documentation (example: 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/core.html#allowoverride) provides an 
> incomplete list of directives permitted by the four AllowOverride options.
> 
> 
> The bug I wanted to plant is to get opinions/thoughts on...
>    *How should this be organized and presented? I can foresee that this could 
> get "cluttery" for AllowOverride documentation.
>    *Should we try to document all directives? As things are added/removed the 
> list could get out of sync easily.
>    *I think it's a good idea to ad a note that the AllowOverride 
> documentation can't possibly cover directives for 3rd party modules that have 
> overrides.
>    *Maybe The Right Thing to do is to implement something in mod_info that 
> will show the overrides and point documentation there?
> 
> 
> 
> As an example and why I brought this up: 
> 23 directives are called out in the documentation for AllowOverride FileInfo, 
> but in my research, I found these 45 directives outside of core and in the 
> modules directory.
> 
>    mod_charset_lite 
> CharsetSourceEnc 
> CharsetDefault 
> CharsetOptions 
> 
>    mod_mime 
> AddCharset 
> AddEncoding 
> AddHandler 
> AddInputFilter 
> AddLanguage 
> AddOutputFilter 
> AddType 
> DefaultLanguage 
> MultiviewsMatch 
> RemoveCharset 
> RemoveEncoding 
> RemoveHandler 
> RemoveInputFilter 
> RemoveLanguage 
> RemoveOutputFilter 
> RemoveType 
> 
>     mod_actions 
> Action 
> 
>    mod_alias 
> Redirect 
> RedirectMatch 
> RedirectTemp 
> RedirectPermanent 
> 
>    mod_negotiation 
> LanguagePriority 
> ForceLanguagePriority 
> 
>    mod_rewrite 
> RewriteEngine 
> RewriteOptions 
> RewriteBase 
> RewriteCond 
> RewriteRule 
> 
>    mod_env 
> PassEnv 
> SetEnv 
> UnsetEnv 
> 
>    mod_headers 
> Header 
> RequestHeader 
> 
>    mod_setenvif 
> SetEnvIf 
> SetEnvIfNoCase 
> BrowserMatch 
> BrowserMatchNoCase 
> 
>    mod_usertrack 
> CookieExpires 
> CookieDomain 
> CookieStyle 
> CookieTracking 
> CookieName
> 
> -- 
> --
> 

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Rich Bowen
rbo...@rcbowen.com
rbo...@apache.org







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