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[Rob Hartill <ha...@hyperreal.com>]

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> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
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> 	Hey guys. There doesn't seem to be a general email address,
> so I just thought I'd write to this. Not really a bug, but a suggestion.
> 	I wouldn't stay strict to the setup structure of NCSA, be
> your own server! You should look at the CERN server and see what it has
> to offer, and incorporate it's good features as well.
> 	One feature that's missing from NCSA/Apache is the amount of
> control over the ScriptAlias directive. If you look at CERN it has
> a similar thing called Exec, but it can use wild cards.
> 	With the NCSA if i want a cgi to be run when someone goes to
> /specialdir then you go ScriptAlias /specialdir   /usr/local/specialcgi
> But any url with the specialdir string in it, will still get redirected
> to specialcgi.
> 	With CERN I can tell it /specialdir/* so that it runs everything
> that comes after that string. Or I can go /specialdir/   /specialcgi and
> only when a person goes /specialdir it will run that specialcgi. But
> will return regular html files with anything appended onto
> /specialdir like /specialdir/whatsnew.html. Where as the NCSA/Apache server
> will end up running specialcgi if I go /specialdir/whatsnew.html.
> 	An example in practice is http://www.spyder.org/BOP/, it has
> a ScriptAlias to run a cgi that generates a different homepage everytime
> you access it. But all the associated files and directories are inside
> the /BOP structure. So if you access them as /BOP/whatever.foo it still
> runs that cgi. Not good. So what I do to get around this is make a 
> symbolic link from BOP to bop. And it just references everything in the 
> lower case bop directory, even though the directories are the same. Quite
> the workaround.
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