Re: DIR_MERGE and .htaccess

[Doug MacEachern <do...@covalent.net>]

On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> Shouldn't DIR_MERGE be called when .htaccess files are found at different
> levels, e.g:
> 
> /axkit/.htaccess
> and
> /axkit/test/.htaccess
> 
> I ask for /axkit/test/test.xsp
> 
> I would have expected it to ask for both .htaccess files and try and merge
> the two using DIR_MERGE, but it doesn't. Am I missing something, or is
> this expected functionality?

it's up to apache when dir_merge gets called.  do you see other apache
config getting merged in that scenario?  i'm not sure what's supposed to
happen in that case without testing.

Re: DIR_MERGE and .htaccess

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> 
> > Shouldn't DIR_MERGE be called when .htaccess files are found at different
> > levels, e.g:
> > 
> > /axkit/.htaccess
> > and
> > /axkit/test/.htaccess
> > 
> > I ask for /axkit/test/test.xsp
> > 
> > I would have expected it to ask for both .htaccess files and try and merge
> > the two using DIR_MERGE, but it doesn't. Am I missing something, or is
> > this expected functionality?
> 
> it's up to apache when dir_merge gets called.  do you see other apache
> config getting merged in that scenario?  i'm not sure what's supposed to
> happen in that case without testing.

I can't recall either now - but I don't seem to have a problem with it any
more...

Glad to see you're off read-only mode again :-)

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