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Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts

Friday, November 09, 2007

It's not as bad as the Sendmail configuration file

But the Apache web server configuration file is pretty close. I once heard one of the founders of the Apache project confess that, the only configuration file worser than it was the one used by Sendmail; I mean, that's not saying much, is it ? I wasted the whole afternoon yesterday wrestling with the VirtualHost directive. Finally, I threw in the towel and got it working in five minutes with twisted web. It's httpd.conf that's twisted. All I wanted was a couple of web servers on my laptop to test my program. The worst part - it makes you feel so stupid for no fault of your own.