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Re:Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server by account42 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:28AM (#50465350)
I would say that's actually a misfeature as it requires too many additional filesystem lookups to fulfil requests.

Modifying the web server config is a nonissue outside of shared hosting, which should have died out with the advent of VMs/containers.

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Re:Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server by jagged-chisel on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:13AM (#50465623)
> … too many additional filesystem lookups …

Caching is a thing. Only dump the cache when a changed is noticed.

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Re:Critical RCE Vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server by canibalrex on Thursday November 12, 2026 @06:36AM (#50465752)
And now you have 2 problems..
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