Bug 500833

Summary: Order of settings on httpd.conf does not promote configuration flexibility
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Avi Alkalay <avibrazil>
Component: httpdAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: jorton, pahan
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Description Avi Alkalay 2009-05-14 13:08:31 UTC
A modular configuration file (/etc/httpd/conf.d/MYCONF.conf) won't have effect over content installed directly under /var/www/html.

This happens because the modular configs are included BEFORE the <Directory "/var/www/html"> block in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

So instead of leveraging the good practice of modular configurations, I have to touch /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

I am having particular problem with "AllowOverride None" in httpd.conf. Since my modular config with "AllowOverride All" will be included BEFORE, it will be reset by the global "AllowOverride None" and my modular config looses effect.

To fix it:
Simply switch order of both blocks making httpd.conf look like this:
-----8<----------
#
# This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to.
#
<Directory "/var/www/html">
...
</Directory>

#
# Load config files from the config directory "/etc/httpd/conf.d".
#
Include conf.d/*.conf
...
--------->8------

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 11:57:25 UTC
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Comment 2 Avi Alkalay 2009-11-18 13:40:11 UTC
This unnecessary lack of flexibility is still present in Fedora 11.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 14:19:42 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:32:37 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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