Re:Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua?
by simonw on Thursday September 10, 2009 @10:55AM
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I've been using Apache for nearly a decade and it still takes me potentially hours of trial and error to figure out how to do something in an Apache config file. I'm pretty sure I'm not a stupid person, but there's something about Apache configuration that just doesn't fit in my brain. The Lua examples in that thread were instantly obvious to me, and I've never written a line of Lua in my life.
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Re:Should Apache replace its current httpd.conf with Lua?
by mst on Thursday September 10, 2009 @11:02AM
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Thing being ... mod_perl let you do most of your configuration in code years ago. Yet I've never done that, and nor have the vast majority of mod_perl users I know (and bear in mind these are people self-selected to already like writing perl, so language wars probably don't make a lot of difference to my argument :).
Configuration isn't code, and I don't really think trying to make it such is necessarily a good idea - I suspect it seems superficially attractive to developers but with my sysad hat on it really doesn't seem wise.