Sorry to be ignorant, but does directory_walking mean that if no index file
is there, it will display the directory contents instead? If so, am I
correct in noticing that apache2 currently does not allow directory browsing
by default?
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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Pane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 4:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: directory_walk performance
>
>
> William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> [...]
>
> >On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, dean gaudet wrote:
> >
> >>>that sounds good.
> >>>
> >>>it's just like constant-folding :)
> >>>
> >>>can you generalise it any? Alias and mod_userdir can add
> more constant
> >>>factors in the path.
> >>>
> >
> >More complicated than that. Think rewrite :-)
> >
> >Bill Stoddard and I chatted about this, our collective
> instinct is that we need
> >to generally cache the intermediate results, and give the
> operator the choice of
> >how quickly to invalidate it.
> >
> In general, I like this caching strategy. My approach of pre-merging
> the configs for all constant path matches is applicable on
> servers that
> have been tuned to disable .htaccess files, but caching of
> intermediate
> results can yield essentially the same optimization while
> still supporting
> htaccess.
>
> The one major concern I have about the caching of intermediate
> results is that the mutex protecting the cache reads/writes will
> become a scalability bottleneck on multiprocessors, but that's
> not an insurmountable problem.
>
> --Brian
>
>
