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From: Joshua Slive <joshua@slive.ca>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Lars Eilebrecht wrote:
> - Make Listen require an IP address, e.g., 123.45.67.89:80
>   if only an address is given it should default to port 80.
>   The definition of Listen should be mandatory.

But what most people want is "Listen to all IP addresses".
This is the current default behaviour.  How do we express
that?

> If we do these changes it might be a good idea to start
> re-thinking our virtual host configuration, especially
> the concept of main server vs. default server vs. vhost.
>

Another minor issue with your proposal: currently,
if <VirtualHost> is specified without an explicit
port, is uses the Port directive.  Would you
want to change that to default to the same
behaviour as <VirtualHost ip.address:*>?

Joshua.