I am unaware of apache's influence on _any_ configuration layout, with the possible exception of source compilation, which merely imitates what the distributions do through layout files. I agree that you are seeing way too much in this. Debian does it its own way, all other distributions (ubuntu, rh, etc) do it their way. Apache has little to do with how people use the opensource, hence the term opensource. If you would like consistency, compile apache yourself instead of using the packages. This is how many people achieve consistency, especially with a high server count. ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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