Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id PAA15411; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:07:19 -0700 Received: from fully.organic.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA15387; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:07:13 -0700 Received: from localhost (brian@localhost) by fully.organic.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA22536 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 1996 22:11:02 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: fully.organic.com: brian owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:11:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Behlendorf To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "No "Optional" clause in the VirtualHost config" on BSDI In-Reply-To: <199606172147.OAA12961@taz.hyperreal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com This is actually untrue - only if the document root is missing, will things still progress as usual. We've talked about kinder, gentler config file parsing but nothing before 1.1 final. Brian On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Rob Hartill wrote: > Hi, > > I think we've covered this for 1.1 (due any day now) > > >Submitter: > >Operating system: BSDI, version: 2.1 > >Version of Apache Used: 1.0.5 > >Extra Modules used: > >URL exhibiting problem: > > > >Symptoms: > >-- > >In the NCSA httpd you can put the cluase "optional" > >in the VirtualHost config. If you reset the server > >and for some reason that virtual host can't go up (config error, > >directory doesn't exist, etc..) the server will > >still go up but with out that virtual host. This > >it most essential for companies who do a lot of > >changes to their virtual hosts. > >-- > > > >Backtrace: > >-- > > > >-- > > -- > Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com) > The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) http://www.imdb.com/ > ...more movie info than you can poke a stick at. > --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com www.apache.org hyperreal.com http://www.organic.com/JOBS