Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:55:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tholmes@zeus.leitch.com (Tony Holmes) Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEVFS/SLICE and SOFT UPDATE patches. Message-ID: <199802252155.OAA28967@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199802251549.KAA01357@bitter.zeus.leitch.com> from "Tony Holmes" at Feb 25, 98 10:49:03 am
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> > b) Speculatively put a '/' on the end and try again.
> >
> > I don't think any web servers currently do (b), but I wouldn't stake my
> > life on it.
>
> Since the FreeBSD group wisely chose Apache, and if they are using a newer
> version (or even a slightly older one), there is a nice way to cover over
> the "brain-damaged" browsers ignorance and make things happily work using
> the rewrite module.
>
> The following two lines in the configuration file (after turning on the
> rewrite engine, etc.) will check to see if the request is a directory and
> append a trailing / if it is. You would need to check if the trailing / is
> missing in the first place as a precondition (this is ripped outta my
> config and I'm too tired to think through that part of the solution atm)
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L]
The difference is actually that the server is speculatively adding
an index.html in the trailing / case, and not adding it in the non-/
case.
A variant symbolic link would allow the colocation of a "username"
to point to "~username/public_html/index.html".
Other than a variant symbolic link (without which "username" can
only point, as it does, to "~username/public_html"), the only other
real option is hard links. The problem here is that (1) directory
hard links are not allowed because they screw with inheritance, and
(2) You have a problem relatvely rooting documentes, unless the
index.html is not implied, but instead explicitly specified.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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