-- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> -- 95855124 http://advogato.org/person/moshez ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 23:20:34 +0100 From: Ola Lundqvist <olalu526@student.liu.se> To: Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> Subject: Re: webcalendars On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:47:02PM +0200, Moshe Zadka wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Sean R. Lynch wrote: > I think you're underestimating the power of httpd.conf. Take a look again > at my original message for some of the havoc people can play with > mod_rewrite, and that was light examples. Non-standard content handlers, > smarter mime-type guessing and all sort of things come in. Well the power of the apache config is probably the solution too. You can actually (via scripts) rewrite the config file, or at least include other config files. > You need to carve out a URL namespace for each application, and make > sure (by having a master httpd.conf that the user must not touch (i.e., > it's not considered a config file) which includes first the user config > file and then the Debian config files) > > I haven't even started talking about Apache virtual host, which add > another layer of complication to this thing. Oh, and ports too. > And IP-based virtual hosts. > > It's not an easy problem, any way you look at it. But if it is possible to define a policy of how the config file are handled from deiban scripts there should not be hard to have a lot of web applications packaged. I do vote for config file to include :) // Ola -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / olalu526@student.liu.se Björnkärrsgatan 5 A.11 \ | opal@lysator.liu.se 584 36 LINKÖPING | | ordforande@lysator.liu.se +46 (0)13-17 69 83 | | ola.lundqvist@euronetics.se +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
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