On 8/31/07, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+maillists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Joshua Slive wrote: > > On 8/31/07, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit+maillists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> My question is whether this is documented anywhere? I use a number of > >> mod_macro statements all over my site and always believed that order of > >> statements is not significant, only the nesting level. Now I am not sure > >> how many more hidden problems I have in my configs. > >> > >> Please point me to documentation in what circumstances the order of > >> similar statements is significant, as my digging around the 2.2 manual > >> proved fruitless. > > > > See: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/sections.html#mergin > > and in particular the sentence: > > "Apart from <Directory>, each group is processed in the order that > > they appear in the configuration files." > > > > So in other words I am responsible for ordering all directives "shortest > directive path first" except for Directory, which is reordered > automatically. Yes. But in all likelihood, you should be using <Directory> and not <Location> in the first place. <Location> is for controlling URLs that aren't related to the filesystem. Therefore there is no real reason to believe that the arguments to <Location> will have a hierarchical file-system-like structure, so it wouldn't make sense for httpd to reorder them in that way. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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