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I'm sorry for the language; you're right, I was out of line. *embarassed* |
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As far as the developer no longer being with Gentoo, this was not |
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apparent. I suppose I could have searched for the information, but it |
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didn't occur to me that doing so was important. Simply the fact that a |
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dev could be so abusive on a bug report scared me away from it -- I've |
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read and submitted several bug reports on Mozilla (Seamonkey and |
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Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox) and I've never seen such an attitude from |
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devs. |
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I thought I was rather precise: Gentoo uses a completely different |
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configuration from most everyone else. There is a <Directory /> |
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directive which blocks access to the root, and then the directory that |
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DocumentRoot is set to is given specific a specific allow directive. |
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It's self defeating, and confusing to someone trying to edit the |
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configuration, especially since (a) The <Directory /> directive is in |
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a different file and (b) there is no documentation in the config file. |
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The webapp glep is a good idea, and I realize that the config file |
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scheme helps with vhosts, but the configuration does differ |
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*significantly* from ASF's default, and it would be nice to have *at |
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least* some comments in the config file explaining what's going on. |
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The bug report I linked to complained about the exact same thing -- |
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non-standard config files without adequate comments. As you said, this |
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was originally filed two years ago, and nothing has been done about |
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it. Hence I'm kind of hesitant to rely on that alone. |
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Other people also dislike this and have had problems with it: |
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http://braindamage.alal.com/archives/gentoo-user.old/20030901/0802.html |
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http://braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2004-May/027765.html |
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http://www.apache-httpd.com/msg/5497.html |
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Up until this point I've been happy with Gentoo. I think it's a good |
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system, even if slightly quirky. I just don't think you want Gentoo to |
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be one of the distributions that gets mentioned by name in the Apache |
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Troubleshooting section. I know I don't. |
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