[Mono-list] XSP default index files

[Gonzalo Paniagua Javier]

El sáb, 21-12-2002 a las 13:15, Gaurav Vaish escribió:
> >
> > Clarifying a bit more: IIS configures a ordered list of possible index
> pages
> > for a directory and all it's children, grandchildren, etc.... But the list
> > may be overriden in some subtree.
> > So the list of candidates for default page, should be backwardly searched
> > for, up to the site root directory.
> >
> 
>     That's right.
>     But I think currently, what Gonzalo wanted to do is to be able to
> directly read the web.config from the place where the server is installed.
> 
>     Now, there are a couple of things that can be done:
> 
>     - Have the IIS style, where we have "per directory" basis.
>     - Have the Apache style where a single DocumentIndex is declared in
> httpd.conf.
> 
>     Now, Apache style has several advantages, especially when the permission
> is given to all the users to have web presence ~gvaish/public_html or
> something like that. In that case, the admin has the rights to set the order
> of files.
> 
>     If we allow to have web.config for individual directory, it may lead to
> problems. So, we can allow separate web.config but that should be meaningful
> only when the permission is granted to override, by having some flag at the
> server configuration.
> 
> 
> <appSettings>
>     <add key="allowDefaultAspxOverride" value="false" />
> </appSettings>
> 
> --OR--
> 
> <appSettings>
>     <add key="allowDefaultAspxOverride" value="true" />
> </appSettings>
> 
> 
>     Comments expected.

Of course, we can add all of those features and more but the xsp server
is not intended to be a fully fledged web server, but a test server.

If any of those configurable options is easy to implement and helpful,
i'll add it.

-Gonzalo