Yeah, we should pick one and be consistent throughout the doc. It's all
very well that there's more than one way to do it, but it makes for
confusing docs.
On Apr 2, 2016 8:15 AM, "Luca Toscano" <toscano.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2016-04-02 8:26 GMT+02:00 Marion & Christophe JAILLET <
> christophe.jail...@wanadoo.fr>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> mod_macro states that:
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> If you want to use a value within another string, it is useful to
>> surround the parameter in braces, to avoid confusion:
>>
>> <Macro DocRoot ${docroot}>
>> DocumentRoot "*/var/www/*${docroot}/htdocs"
>> </Macro>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> As written in the comment below, it works but it triggers a warning.
>>
>> When the directive is parsed, we first try to resolve env variable. This
>> is why we get the warning.
>>
>> In order to fix it we could just update the doc.
>> For example, using [] instead of {} works fine.
>> Or we could stipulate that if [} are used, then the in % prefix should be
>> used instead of $.
>>
>>
>> Any opinion?
>>
>
> I would prefer to use %{} rather than $[] but it is only a matter of
> taste, no strong argument in favor of one or the other. I took a look to
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_macro.html and it seems a
> bit confusing that in "Tips" we suggest to use ${} in order to embed
> something into a string but we don't follow this convention throughout the
> doc page. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luca
>
