Alias and ScriptAlias suggestion (fwd) ??? (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

I think Cliff or Chuck forwarded this earlier. If so the submitter
obviously thinks that got ignored (true).

Just in case I'm mistaken, I send this again. I'll send an ack.




From: jwk@aplexus.jhuapl.edu (John W. Kulp)
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Subject: Alias and ScriptAlias  suggestion (fwd) ???
To: apache-bugs@mail.apache.org
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 17:00:44 -0400 (EDT)
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 I was hacking around srm.conf to get Alias and ScriptAlias more flexible
 ... (I'm supporting a couple of projects that use 1.1b2 httpd and I don't
 want to keep multi copies of srm.conf ) and notice that it wouldn't take
 relative paths to DocumentRoot, 

I then could set DocumentRoot to whatever and do this in srm.conf: 
 
 Alias /icons/                           db/httpd/icons/
 Alias /NWP/                             db/pubs/NWP/
 Alias /EQUIPMENT_DESCRIPTIONS/
 db/training/EQUIPMENT_DESCRIPTIONS/
 Alias /about/                           cdkdb/export/about/
 Alias /help/                            cdkdb/export/help/
 Alias /access/                          db/httpd/access/
 
 etc .... there is a bunch ...
 
 so, in mod_alias.c ... add_alias() ...
 
 /* XX r can NOT be relative to DocumentRoot here... compat bug. */
 so ... I changed
     new->real = r;
 and replaced it with this ...
     new->real = is_directory (r) ? r :
 server_root_relative(cmd->pool,r);
 
 it was quick and it does the trick ... but ... a couple of questions 
 
 should i persue this ?? 
 
 if so ... shouldn't the call be document_root_relative() ??? 
 
 should I write document_root_relative() ???
-OR-
 should I use char *document_root (request_rec *); instead ??
 
 John
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