On 19.11.2011 22:59, Happy Melon wrote: > "Better" here is clearly in the eye of the beholder. The system you've > just described is virtually semantically identical to the Debian/Ubuntu > setup: you have a load of small vhost files, create a list of them sorted > however you want, and get apache to load them all in order. Having the > list as symlinks is easier and safer to script, as the corresponding OS > filesystem functions are very well defined, but ordering the list is a > little more difficult. If you put the list in httpd.conf as a list of > includes you are dependent on having a safe and effective system for > editing it via script, which is substantially harder to develop; but the > ordering is a little more elegant. > > Personally I'd say that the list-of-includes method was the "ugly option" > "reminding me of ancient programming languages" and the symlink method was > the "better setup", but there's no cast-iron reason why it should be so; > it's basically a personal preference. It's the sort of distinction you'd > discuss over a beer or ten, not one to discuss with the expectation of a > meaningful outcome. > > My method does not require creation of symlinks and numeric prefixes, that's why it's better. Ancient languages used numeric labels for lines of code. Cut / paste of single text line is faster than renaming symlinks. Commenting line with # is better as well. These points are objective, not subjective. I would stop talking about that yesterday if you weren't insisting that it's a personal preference (it's not). Dmitriy
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