Re: Apache API

2001-11-01 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > I've been reading the Apache API doc, and in addition to it being > somewhat slim, I was wondering about some of the comments that make it > sounds like it was written during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. > > This doc is at http://h

Apache API

2001-11-01 Thread Rich Bowen
I've been reading the Apache API doc, and in addition to it being somewhat slim, I was wondering about some of the comments that make it sounds like it was written during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. This doc is at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/API.html by the way. Can someone confirm/deny

Authentication tutorial

2001-11-01 Thread Rich Bowen
. If everyone likes it, we can do the necessary stuff to get it in the Apache Documentation format and look. Thanks -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Books about Apache

2001-10-28 Thread Rich Bowen
or B&N, or some other online bookstore? Rich -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://geeks.cre8tivegroup.com/ --- Work http://www.rcbowen.com/ --- Play - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comma

Re: Fw: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/docs/conf ldap.conf proxy.conf ssl.conf httpd-std.conf httpd-win.conf

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Bowen
elf, or should they be in some sample_conf directory and linked to from hither and yon. I would think that the former would be much more likely to be kept updated. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it mi

Re: httpd-docs-1.3 and xml and porting changes

2001-10-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Joshua Slive wrote: > > > > 1. Apply tidy with exactly the same options to > > httpd-docs-1.3 and hope that the formating is close > > enough to make things work. > > +1 OK. I wondered about this at the time, and forgot to mention it. I was not

Re: os-windows/7410: Documentation regarding Win32 Apache Server service installation is incorrect

2001-09-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > Guys, > > > > I'm sorry, but I've been drowning in 'work-work' and 2.0 work :( Is there > > anyone who could take up this PR and update the instruc

Re: os-windows/7410: Documentation regarding Win32 Apache Server service installation is incorrect

2001-09-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Guys, > > I'm sorry, but I've been drowning in 'work-work' and 2.0 work :( Is there > anyone who could take up this PR and update the instructions based on the > Apache 1.3.20 installer for Windows? > > Essentially, they now choose "Install a

Re: [STATUS] (httpd-docs-2.0) Wed Sep 19 23:45:22 EDT 2001

2001-09-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > From: "Rich Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:05 AM > > > > > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Rodent

Re: [STATUS] (httpd-docs-2.0) Wed Sep 19 23:45:22 EDT 2001

2001-09-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Apache HTTP Server 2.0 Documentation Status File. > Last modified: $Date: 2001/09/17 18:32:45 $ > > - XHTML conversion > Status: unknown All the 2.0 documentation has been converted to XHTML. It is now ... http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/D

Re: [STATUS] (httpd-docs-2.0) Wed Sep 19 23:45:22 EDT 2001

2001-09-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > From: "Rich Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:05 AM > > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > > > > - XHTML conversion > > >

Re: [STATUS] (httpd-docs-2.0) Wed Sep 19 23:45:22 EDT 2001

2001-09-21 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > - XHTML conversion > Status: unknown I was wondering about this. A few weeks ago I submitted some mod docs that had been xhtml-ized via w3c tidy. Did anyone have any complaints with those? If not, I can xhtml-ize the entire documentatio

RE: mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-09-18 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > Well, I do -- until there is a replacement. In fact, > > I will veto its removal until there is something as > > good or better for 3P module writers to use as a > > template. > > Sorry, I was under the impression that mod_TEMPLATE was in httpd-docs-1.

Re: mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-09-18 Thread Rich Bowen
Ah. Missed that one. I'll take care of making this just one file, and getting rid of the other one. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Someb

Re: Proposal for Improviing the Security Docs

2001-09-18 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Allan Liska wrote: > > Rich, > > Thanks for your comments, please see my answers in-line... > > On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Allan Liska wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > As I

Re: Proposal for Improviing the Security Docs

2001-09-17 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Allan Liska wrote: > Hello, > > As I mentioned earlier this week, I would like to try to improve the > layout of the security docs. I'd really like feedback from people > on this list as to how in-depth the documents should go. As an > example, should we explain how

Re: [xy9cmatrix@inwind.it: a broken link]

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Because mod_dll is depricated. Where did you find this link so we can > do away with it? > > The mod_so replaced mod_dll quite a while ago (two years or more.) Mod_so > offers identical syntax and very similar behavior for multiple OS's. mod_dl

Re: mod/prefork.html

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Ryan Bloom wrote: > On Sunday 16 September 2001 01:00 pm, Rich Bowen wrote: > > In mod/prefork.html in the 2.0 docs, the following is stated: > > > > The StartServers, MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, and MaxServers > > regulate how the parent

mod/prefork.html

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
In mod/prefork.html in the 2.0 docs, the following is stated: The StartServers, MinSpareServers, MaxSpareServers, and MaxServers regulate how the parent process creates children to serve requests. Is this a typo, or is there a MaxServers directive somewhere that I'm not aware of? I know about Max

Re: Proposal for Improviing the Security Docs

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Allan Liska wrote: > I'd really like feedback from everyone as to whether or not this is > a good start...or if there should be more information included? This is a great start and a great idea. I would be glad to assist in whatever capacity I can, particularly since I am

Re: Type-map files

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
lots of examples of how to do .var files. Or is this just one more thing to maintain, and one more thing to get out of sync? I suppose if someone added a translation, and did not add it to the .var file, someone would notice pretty quickly. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother o

mod_proxy

2001-09-16 Thread Rich Bowen
I appear to be insufficiently clued into the current status of mod_proxy, so if someone could fill me in, I'd appreciate it. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html is not terribly satisfying, and the only location that I can really find with useful information is http://cvs.apache.org

Re: Security Docs

2001-09-14 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Allan Liska wrote: > Hello, > > If no else is working on it, I would like to take a stab at the > following action item: > > * Improving the "security docs" > > - More content and better organisation. Where do you see the organization lacking/confusing? I find that t

Re: server-parsed

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > Does the server-parsed handler go away completely in version 2.0, to be > replaced by the INCLUDES filter? I'm sorry. Silly question. I see that it does. Somehow, in my long absence, I missed that. I have a related question, howev

server-parsed

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Bowen
Does the server-parsed handler go away completely in version 2.0, to be replaced by the INCLUDES filter? -- Nothing is perfekt. Certainly not me. Success to failure. Just a matter of degrees. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PR

Re: some Apache questions

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Bowen
putting them in the @@ServerRoot@@/manual directory, and setting up the various include directives to have them parsed. Is there a reason to not do this? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/ - To unsub

Re: docs on httpd.apache.org

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > How often are the docs on httpd.apache.org updated, and would it be > > possible to update them somewhat more frequently? > > No schedule; it's a manual thing: > ssh w

docs on httpd.apache.org

2001-09-09 Thread Rich Bowen
How often are the docs on httpd.apache.org updated, and would it be possible to update them somewhat more frequently? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody&#

Re: W3C tidy

2001-09-07 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On a related note, tidy has an -asxml switch that produces ... > > > > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > > > > Is *this*

Re: W3C tidy

2001-09-06 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > I started doing a few docs with tidy to see how it went, and discovered > that it is disobeying at least one of the edicts regarding HTML in the > docs. Specifically, it is doing: > > "core.html#limitrequestfieldsize&qu

W3C tidy

2001-09-06 Thread Rich Bowen
this that goes beyond someone's personal preference? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bounced messages, Meek apologies

2001-09-05 Thread Rich Bowen
Sorry, folks. I screwed up my mail filters, and have been bouncing email for about a day and a half. It is fixed now, and I'm catching up in the archives. -- And everyone said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve - To the hills of the Chankly Bore!" (The Jumblies, by Edward Lear)

Regarding lower-case HTML tags

2001-09-05 Thread Rich Bowen
I've been using tidy, from the w3c, for a while now, to do pretty-reformatting of HTML documents. One of the things that it does is lower-case HTML tags. I was wondering, in light of comments made a week or two ago, whether it would be worthwhile to do this with files in the docs as I a working wit

Authentication howto

2001-09-05 Thread Rich Bowen
t is worth it. I'd like to add more examples, and perhaps some stuff about mod_auth_db. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: FW: .htaccess doc is bogus (fwd)

2001-09-04 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Let's not make that document and say we did. > > Specifically, let's incorporate that info into the Overrides: foo headers > in the directives tree, but write a simple script to just extract and build > a table of that gook for the docs. We don't

Re: FW: .htaccess doc is bogus (fwd)

2001-09-04 Thread Rich Bowen
doesn't already exist > would probably go a long way... Ah, ok. That makes sense. I have at least one such doc, which might provide a decent starting place. Should that go in the howto area? (By the way, I promised an authentication howto several weeks ago, and it's almost ready.) --

Re: FW: .htaccess doc is bogus (fwd)

2001-09-04 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > In case anyone needs a project ;-) > > -- Forwarded Message > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:11:18 -0700 (PDT) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: .htaccess doc is bogus > > You create doc pages which contain all the information

Type-map files

2001-09-02 Thread Rich Bowen
I'm still missing something from the documentation for content negotiation, and want to make sure that I am understanding this correctly before I add something incorrect to the docs. What you do, if I'm getting this, is to do an AddHandler ... AddHandler type-map .var and then create a file call

Re: Content negotiation

2001-08-26 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > The docs for mod_negotiation say a number of different ways that the > > module attempts to send to the client the document best suited to the > > client's requirements. However,

Content negotiation

2001-08-26 Thread Rich Bowen
y understanding that this determination is based on the Accept header sent by the client, but I am not at all sure of this. I'll look in the source, but if someone can answer this definitively, I'd be much obliged. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://geeks.cre8tivegroup.com/ --- Wo

mod_mime

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
review that, and tell me what I did wrong, or what I need to add? Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rcbowen.com/kenya/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > OK, try this on for size: > > > > Looks good. > > A couple little points: The thing I quoted was the HTTP spec, not the MIME > spec. Also, I would probably refer to

Re: mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > OK, try this on for size: Note: I did not commit this yet. I wanted a little feedback before I did so. Thanks. > > > Index: mod_mime.html > === > RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2

Re: mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
OK, try this on for size: Index: mod_mime.html === RCS file: /home/cvs/httpd-2.0/docs/manual/mod/mod_mime.html,v retrieving revision 1.44 diff -u -r1.44 mod_mime.html --- mod_mime.html 2001/08/22 02:22:46 1.44 +++ mod_mime.

Re: mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > I like the concreteness. For reference, the RFC says: > > The Content-Encoding entity-header field is used as a modifier to the > media-type. When present, its value indicates what additional content > coding has been applied to the resource, and thus wh

Re: mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
particular language. Ah, yes. I had not gotten to the language part, but that certainly belongs in there also. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author - Apache Server Unleashed - http://www.apacheunleashed.com/ - To unsubscribe,

mod_mime and encoding

2001-08-25 Thread Rich Bowen
d with the pkzip file encoding, then the file Resume.doc.zip would be known to be a pkzipp'ed Word document. === Or something along those lines. Perhaps this could go after the discussion of multi-extension files. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PRO

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-24 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > It would be nice to have at least a pointer to a regular expression > > tutorial, and perhaps a description of some kind in the docs > > themselves about what type of regular

Re: cvs commit: httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual urlmapping.html

2001-08-24 Thread Rich Bowen
On 24 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -This document explains the method in which Apache determines > -what filesystem location to serve a file from based on the > -URL of a request. > +This document explains how Apache determines the filesystem > +location from which to serve a file

Re: Your thoughts are required

2001-08-24 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Andrew Kenna wrote: > 1) How does everyone feel about having the apache specific web site > httpd.apache.org accessible via rsync ? > This then would give you guys the ability to have a fully functional local > apache mirror instead of having your users forced to goto apache'

Re: "chapter" on logs

2001-08-24 Thread Rich Bowen
Having been rather out of touch with Apache things for 2 or 3 months, I'm still catching back up on email to the docs list. I came across this note from Joshua, which apparently nobody responded to, and which deserves a response, since so much work obviously went into it. On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joshu

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > Regular expressions have the same syntax as those found in the Unix > > egrep command. > > > > This is, as far as I can find so far, the only specific explanation of > &g

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:15:12PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > No, the / character does not have special meaning in these regular > > expressions. More specifically, there is no delimiter, as there is in > > Perl. You j

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:43:58PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > > can't fin

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:59:27PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > > > flavor of regular expressions a

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > can't find it, but perhaps I'm just overlooking it, and will find it > as soon as I send thi

Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
s of nifty things. If someone can point me in the right direction, I'd be glad to get such a thing started. Thanks -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] As we trace our own few circles around the sun We get it backwards and our seven years go by like one Dog Years (Rush - Test

List name change

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
Are we getting a list name change also? I was not clear on when/if that was happening. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's Luggage (Charles Di

Re: MIME.types, mime.types?

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > When you sai that they need to be synched, do we have a general idea > > at what point they got out of sync? I'm wondering if it is just a > > question of going back and ap

Re: MIME.types, mime.types?

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > My suggestion: > Copy the 1.3 docs over the the 2.0 ones and commit. Someone will then > need to go through the commit logs: > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/http/mod_mime.c > and see if anything needs docing. From a quick look, it

Re: mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Marc Slemko wrote: > The HTML docs used to be postprocessed into postscript and made available > as one big file so people didn't have to use a "web browser" to read them. > The scripts that did it are probably around somewhere... the %plaintext > stuff was used as part of som

Invalid user docs@apache.org (fwd)

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
What's up with these messages? I'm getting them every time I post, although my messages are clearly going through. -- Forwarded message -- Date: 22 Aug 2001 00:05:13 - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Invalid user [EMAI

Re: mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > I would drop the

Re: Compiling and installing apache

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > I was today looking at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/install.html and > > found it to be ... how to put this nicely ... suboptimal. It contains > > little nuggets like "Apache

Re: Compiling and installing apache

2001-08-22 Thread Rich Bowen
harder, but I'm not seeing it. Likewise with SSL, from what I've experienced, although there are better reasons for making that seem harder than it really is. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://geeks.cre8tivegroup.com/ --- W

Compiling and installing apache

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Bowen
I was today looking at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/install.html and found it to be ... how to put this nicely ... suboptimal. It contains little nuggets like "Apache is designed to be configured and run from the same set of directories where it is compiled." and "Copy or rename these files to the

Re: MIME.types, mime.types?

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > If the default value of TypesConfig is conf/MIME.types, why does > > Apache ship with a file called mime.types instead? I presume there's > > some historical reason for

Re: mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Bowen
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > I have not committed this. Just submitting it for peer review and > > approval/suggestions. > > Looks good. > > I would drop the

MIME.types, mime.types?

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Bowen
If the default value of TypesConfig is conf/MIME.types, why does Apache ship with a file called mime.types instead? I presume there's some historical reason for this, right? -- And everyone said, "If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve - To the hills of the Chankly Bore!" (The Jumblie

mod_TEMPLATE.html

2001-08-21 Thread Rich Bowen
, if that were to happen, this will probably be confusing anyway. Thoughts on that? -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's Luggage (Charles Di

Re: Auto-index sorting in 1.3

2001-08-20 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > From: "Rich Bowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:47 PM > > > > > > The directive listing should not be shoved down. If the "Summary" grows > > > beyond a few p

Re: Auto-index sorting in 1.3

2001-08-20 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > 2.0 now has a very nice explanation of how the automatic directory > ordering and searching works, but there is, as far as I can find, no > description of this behavior in the 1.3 docs. I'm writing such a > description, and wondered where the best plac

Re: cvs commit: httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod mod_autoindex.html

2001-08-20 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > The question is, american o vs. british ou. iSpell tells me that > > 'behaviour' is mispelled. I know that it is not, technically, but I > > also believe that the documentation shou

Re: Auto-index sorting in 1.3

2001-08-20 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > 2.0 now has a very nice explanation of how the automatic directory > ordering and searching works, but there is, as far as I can find, no > description of this behavior in the 1.3 docs. I'm writing such a > description, and wondered where the best plac

Auto-index sorting in 1.3

2001-08-19 Thread Rich Bowen
stuck in at the top of mod_autoindex.html, which seems like a somewhat logical place, but means that you have to scroll for some time to get to the listing of directives. However, if this is where folks want it, I'll put it in there. Thanks -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] As we trace o

Re: cvs commit: httpd-docs-1.3/htdocs/manual/mod mod_autoindex.html

2001-08-19 Thread Rich Bowen
On 19 Aug 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rbowen 01/08/19 12:33:42 > > Modified:htdocs/manual/mod mod_autoindex.html > Log: > Applied changes made to the 2.0 document, where appropriate. Sorry this is ending up being so many separate patches. This doc is really good, and I'm not fi

Re: 2.0 commit mails...

2001-08-19 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Jason Lingohr wrote: > I've never received any 2.0 commits either... Yes, I was going to mention that also. I did not receive the commit messages from my own commits, but my various attempts to subscribe to that mailing list were rebuffed by the system. -- Ri

Re: AddIconByType vs AddIcon

2001-08-19 Thread Rich Bowen
lthough I can see that this could be done. Thanks, folks. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... and another brother out of his mind, and another brother out at New York (not the same, though it might appear so) Somebody's Lu

AddIconByType vs AddIcon

2001-08-18 Thread Rich Bowen
The documentation for AddIcon states: AddIconByType should be used in preference to AddIcon, when possible. There is, however, no indication as to why this should be, anywhere that I could find it. Could someone please suggests what the reasons are for this recommendation? Thanks. -- Rich

mod_autoindex.html

2001-08-18 Thread Rich Bowen
lent of IndexOptions FancyIndexing ScanHTMLTitles. Unfortunately, there is no "example above". Can someone help me find this example that is being referred to, so that I can patch this doc. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org ---

Re: Authentication tutorial

2001-07-30 Thread Rich Bowen
I got a lot written this week at the O'Reilly conference, and then discovered that I have not committed anything to the docs since the ... um ... event, a month or two ago, and so no longer have a ssh key on the server that is valid. Anyone know who I need to send my key to in order to get back in?

Re: Docs format (again)

2001-07-30 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > mod_env > This module provides for modifying the environment which > is passed to CGI scripts and SSI pages. > Base > [...] > > > This module allows for control of the environment that will be > provided to CGI scripts and

Re: Authentication tutorial

2001-07-16 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > I don't know if anyone has started on the task of reworking the > > authentication/authorization tutorial from Apache Today for the Apache > > docs. I will be working from that

Authentication tutorial

2001-07-14 Thread Rich Bowen
that should be useful for the docs. So if nobody's started on it, I'll be doing that either this evening or tomorrow. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have trouble remembering things? http://www.idforgetmyhead.com/ ---

Re: One thing missing from STATUS for 1.3...

2001-07-03 Thread Rich Bowen
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Chris Pepper wrote: > At 10:05 PM -0700 2001/06/23, Joshua Slive wrote: > > >- Tutorial on user authentication with Apache. Rich Bowen has contributed > >his tutorial from ApacheToday, but it needs to be cleaned up and put in > >a good format for th

Re: One thing missing from STATUS for 1.3...

2001-07-01 Thread Rich Bowen
fleshing out in the areas you mention, but I think it's a pretty good starting place, if I may say so. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RLimit*

2001-05-15 Thread Rich Bowen
ect/want them to do (kill an Apache child when it gets too big), but I'm probably misunderstanding what they are supposed to do. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have trouble remembering things? http://www.idforgetmyhead.com/ --

A Patchy Server and the FAQ

2001-05-12 Thread Rich Bowen
o about the connections between the ASF system of government, and that of the Apache people. The "Patchy Server" pun bears mentioning, for historical reasons, but should not be listed as the primary source of the name. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have trouble reme

Re: 2.0 install.html revamp

2001-05-10 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 9 May 2001 22:53:06 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time), Joshua Slive said: > I just trashed the old install.html in httpd-docs-2.0 and replaced it with > an html'ized version of INSTALL from the source distribution. This is a > major change, but what was there was so innacurate that I figur

Re: Design document

2001-04-10 Thread Rich Bowen
Cynthia Cote wrote: > > Hi all, > > Is there some document that discuss the design of apache ? Could you perhaps be a little more detailed as to what it is that you are looking for? -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Have trouble remembering things? - http://

Re: 'it worked' page

2001-04-05 Thread Rich Bowen
ke the right place to send them. -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come see me at Apachecon! -- http://www.apachecon.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache history, 2nd draft

2001-04-05 Thread Rich Bowen
whether you think that it works as one monolithic document, or should be subdivided. Thanks. -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come see me at Apachecon! -- http://www.apachecon.com/Title: The History of the Apache Server project The History of the Apache Server project Pre-history

Re: History

2001-04-02 Thread Rich Bowen
Rich Bowen wrote: > > Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > > > Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > > That would rock. I would fully expect ApacheWeek to be one of my two > > > primary resources - the other being CVS, which is substantially less > > > f

Re: History

2001-03-28 Thread Rich Bowen
past. In particular, I had trouble finding out anything about the timeline of the NSCA HTTPd server. I found a detailed change log, but it had no dates in it. Oh, well, perhaps someone can point me in the right direction on that. Anyways, here it is. -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come

Re: History

2001-03-28 Thread Rich Bowen
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > That would rock. I would fully expect ApacheWeek to be one of my two > > primary resources - the other being CVS, which is substantially less > > friendly to get information out of. > > Ah, but th

Re: History

2001-03-04 Thread Rich Bowen
Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Perl has http://history.perl.org/ which Elaine Ashton maintains. I don't > > know that we want to be that ambitious (translation: I don't have that > > kind of time) but it's something to

Re: History

2001-03-04 Thread Rich Bowen
Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > By the way, I think that a lot of this could fill in some of the gap > > left by the background section that appears to be going away from the > > FAQ. Stuff like what is Apache all about, how it came to

History

2001-03-02 Thread Rich Bowen
at sort of thing. -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come see me at Apachecon! -- http://www.apachecon.com/

Re: prototype FAQ

2001-02-23 Thread Rich Bowen
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > > Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > Whatever format it's in, is there any interest in having a > > cronjob that text-ifies it and posts it to usenet? comp.lang.perl > > has something like this going, as do various other groups. I > &

Re: prototype FAQ

2001-02-23 Thread Rich Bowen
groups. I think I have that code here somewhere. Having the document multi-page will complicate matters, but only a little. -- Rich Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Come see me at Apachecon! -- http://www.apachecon.com/

  1   2   >