Hi,

After installing apache and diving in the httpd.conf file i noticed the enormous list of apache modules that is loaded by default!

Lets first take a note of the likely assumptions that someone wants to do with a apache on archlinux.
- The user PROBABLY wants to just have apache for local development reasons
- The user PROBABLY wants to install PHP
- And nice url's (mod_rewrite) is something we can't live without anymore these days

So, why not "tune" the apache configuration to do exactly that?
O and even more funny. mod_rewrite is in fact installed and enabled by default BUT rewriting itself is off since AllowOverride is set to None instead of All.

I propose to use this config: http://codepad.org/BTT3Sc9R

I disabled nearly all modules including SSL since that sucks up requests and is, in my opinion, not likely to be the first thing a arch user is going to use when he installs apache.
The other edit i did in this was AllowOverride All in the <Directory "/srv/http"> dir.

Note that using this config does make it a closer match to the clean lighttpd config!

I don't know if those disabled modules should remain in the file as commented or just removed completely from the conf..? That's up to the maintainer to decide i guess.

So, what do you think of this suggestion?

Regards,
Mark