From: "Martin Kraemer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:41 AM
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:10:15PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> > What I committed was the most -optimal- solution, not necessarily the more
>predictable
> > one. I think we should change the docco to tell the user to edit the docroot (and
> > assign it's permissions) rather than encouraging them to change the contents of our
> > distribution htdocs directory. But that's just my 2c.
>
> Why do we use the double-typed
> index.html.var
> at all? Wouldn't it be more predictable to use
> DirecoryIndex index.var index.html index
> and put the index.html.<lang> files into the index.var file?
Good Q ... because a user that defined 'index.html' as their hyperlink to a directory,
and turned on multiviews, _still_ gets index.html.var.
And index.html.var will the authoritative list of langagues and charsets for our
docroot
index.html.foo collection.
One big problem in the past, we have a bunch of folks that updated that list of docs,
but never brought httpd.conf up-to-date. Other bugs either 1. served the wrong (.tw)
file
because of its size, or 2. escaped out of negotation into autoindex. The bugs are
gone,
but it wouldn't have happened if they carry the typemap along with the index files.
> That would avoid the ambiguity between index.html.<lang> and
> index.html.var. In the absence of an index.var, the user's index.html
> (possibly even index.html.<lang> by way of MultiViews) would be found
> as usual.
I believe we are all saying index.html, then index.html.var, so a new index.html file
will be caught.
Bill
