Re: apache manual language

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 16:09, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 05:32, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:12, Joe Orton wrote:
> > > MultiViews is only enabled by default for the the manual directory;  
> > > disabling FollowSymLinks is a performance hit; maybe Indexes should be
> > > indeed be off by default, could you file a bugzilla bug on that?
> > Disabling FollowSymLinks is a performance improvement, not hit.
> No it isn't.  When you configure the server to not follow symlinks, it
> has to stat() all of the directories in the path to the file to make

I consider better security an improvement on performance, since overall
uptime counts for performance too.

> sure that none of them are symlinks.  This takes more time per page than
> when the server is allowed to follow symlinks, and such checks are
> unnecessary.

However, in the stated case, it is NEVER a performance hit, or do you
run web servers with the default configuration?

It is still ill advised to recommend following links.

Rui

-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

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