mod_userdir/3545: Path mappings incorrect

[James Chan <we...@jc.ml.org>]

>Number:         3545
>Category:       mod_userdir
>Synopsis:       Path mappings incorrect
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 17 03:20:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     webmaster@jc.ml.org
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.3
>Environment:
RedHat Linux 5.1:
Linux student.kgv.edu.hk 2.0.36 #1 Tue Nov 17 13:01:19 EST 1998 i586 unknown
>Description:
I have private user folders set up across two partitions:
/home1/userid and /home2/userid
This is not readable by anyone else due to security reasons. (as its chmod 711)
To setup user homepages, I need to make a publicly readable folder called 'web', so I need to do:
UserDir ../web/*
in srm.conf. However, when I do http://student.kgv.edu.hk/~jchan, it looks for /home1/jchan/../web/jchan/ = /home1/web/jchan/ which exists (tested with bash), but apache says it doesn't exist.
>How-To-Repeat:
By setting up as above. I cannot do UserDir /home1/web as there are TWO partitions.
>Fix:
Yes. Something wrong with the pathname lookup.
Please reply. This is urgent and I need it working ASAP.
>Audit-Trail:
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