Comment 2 for bug 429557

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Mark Schouten (mark-prevented) wrote : Re: [Bug 429557] [NEW] cdimages.ubuntu.com depends on (groundloosing) Apache due to .htaccess

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 07:51:41PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> index.html is a bit of a pain to maintain. Doesn't your web server of
> choice have some kind of basic .htaccess compatibility? I know for
> certain that .htaccess support is not restricted to Apache.

A crawl that creates the index.html-pages before release perhaps?

I know that nginx and lighttpd, the main competitors for Apache on this
front, do not support htaccess.

Someone has made a patch for lighttpd, but a more efficient method would
be nice.

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Mark Schouten <email address hidden>