WWW Form Bug Report: "virtualhost documentroot directive overrides others" on FreeBSD

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Submitter: admin@multinet.net
Operating system: FreeBSD, version: 
Version of Apache Used: 1.1.1
Extra Modules used: 
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
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Not a major "BUG" but may cause confusion: 
a DocumentRoot directive (like, say, in a virtualhost
declaration) seems to clobber any previous "default"
DocumentRoot declarations in httpd.conf, which
isn't a major problem cause you can just re-declare
the default DocumentRoot at some point after all
your virtualhost declarations in the config file.
might want to mention it somewhere though. took
me a half hour of muttering obscenities to notice.
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Backtrace:
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Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "virtualhost documentroot directive overrides others" on FreeBSD

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 1996 admin@multinet.net wrote:
> Submitter: admin@multinet.net
> Operating system: FreeBSD, version: 
> Version of Apache Used: 1.1.1
> Extra Modules used: 
> URL exhibiting problem: 
> 
> Symptoms:
> --
> Not a major "BUG" but may cause confusion: 
> a DocumentRoot directive (like, say, in a virtualhost
> declaration) seems to clobber any previous "default"
> DocumentRoot declarations in httpd.conf, which
> isn't a major problem cause you can just re-declare
> the default DocumentRoot at some point after all
> your virtualhost declarations in the config file.
> might want to mention it somewhere though. took
> me a half hour of muttering obscenities to notice.

Hmm, this can't be right.  Are you saying that in a config file which
looks like this

  DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/default

  <VirtualHost foobar.com>
  DocumentRoot /www/htdocs/foobar.com
  </VirtualHost>

then the first DocumentRoot is "clobbered" by the second?  I have not seen
this happen anywhere else, and I have my httpd.conf set up just like this.
Is there something else going on?

	Brian

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