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["David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>]

I know this has been talked about on and off before, but I would like to 
seriously get this started.

Right now httpd.conf is very large and cluttered also we don't provide 
choices to add phpmyadmin phppgadmin, and the like, to apache root or not.  
However I wouldn't like to see more questions being asked of the user.

I propose to change the /etc/httpd directory adding directories 
modules-available and modules-enabled along with sites-available and 
sites-enabled, might recognize this from debian.  The spells would add config 
files to either sites-available or modules-available automatically then it 
would be up to the user to copy or link the config files to the sites-enabled 
or modules-enabled directories, the httpd.conf file would also by default 
source all files in the sites-enabled and modules-enabled directories.

Also I propose the same sort of approach to apache root. Adding a directory 
/usr/share/apache[2]/httpd.d where all sites would be installed then 
requiring the user to link from there to where ever they want. (Seth I think 
you were concerned about this)

Since apache is one of linux's biggest security risks (of the few security 
risks that there are :) I think this approach would give more power to the 
user and still provide unattented and safe installs without adding more 
questions.

Let me know what you think, I'm sure most of you will ;)

- David Brown
dmlb2000*




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