Right, it's astounding to me that outfits like Microsoft didn't just immediately ship decent ACME implementations. People seem to have settled for third party bolt-on solutions. It's like you wake up in an alternate world where yeah, no cars come with seat belts, but of course everybody buys seatbelts for the car, there's usually a store next to the car dealer which sells them. Um. What?
Most of the "popular" software in this space is garbage. I spent the entire day today (aside from meetings and helping other people debug problems) wrestling with the fact Apache seems to be designed so heavily with a C programmer mindset that even the idea of reporting problems has never occurred to them. Just blunder on, it'll be fine, don't think about it. You can sprinkle complete nonsense into Apache configuration files and, until you trip an actual syntactical error and blow up their parser, Apache just presses on anyway with the nonsense values you provided, and if that doesn't work, no reason to report it just do whatever was the default and hope that's OK.
As far as I can tell, in the wild the result is a lot of Apache configuration is complete nonsense, but hey no errors are reported, so, copy, paste, move on.
Most of the "popular" software in this space is garbage. I spent the entire day today (aside from meetings and helping other people debug problems) wrestling with the fact Apache seems to be designed so heavily with a C programmer mindset that even the idea of reporting problems has never occurred to them. Just blunder on, it'll be fine, don't think about it. You can sprinkle complete nonsense into Apache configuration files and, until you trip an actual syntactical error and blow up their parser, Apache just presses on anyway with the nonsense values you provided, and if that doesn't work, no reason to report it just do whatever was the default and hope that's OK.
As far as I can tell, in the wild the result is a lot of Apache configuration is complete nonsense, but hey no errors are reported, so, copy, paste, move on.