Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 21338 invoked by uid 6000); 4 Oct 1998 06:44:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 21327 invoked from network); 4 Oct 1998 06:44:44 -0000 Received: from paris.ics.uci.edu (mmdf@128.195.1.50) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 4 Oct 1998 06:44:44 -0000 Received: from kiwi.ics.uci.edu by paris.ics.uci.edu id aa15966; 3 Oct 98 23:43 PDT To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/conf access.conf-dist highperformance.conf-dist httpd.conf-dist srm.conf-dist In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 00:31:52 MDT." Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 23:43:29 -0700 From: "Roy T. Fielding" Message-ID: <9810032343.aa15966@paris.ics.uci.edu> Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Status: O >What do we gain by leaving it commented out? Erm... very litte. That depends on what is in the cgi-bin directory relative to the server root. >What do we lose? We just add one more step required for many people to >get a working setup. People don't need a cgi-bin directory for a working setup. I prefer to disable everything by default so that the installer is aware of what has been enabled and not surprised later. That's too hard for most folks, so not enabling scripting is a reasonable middle road. ....Roy