WWW Form Bug Report: "autmounter complains about /home/.htaccess" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Cliff Skolnick <cl...@organic.com>]

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Cliff Skolnick                                      cliff@organic.com

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Date: Wed May 15 8:38:23 1996
From: appro@fy.chalmers.se
To: cliff@organic.com
Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "autmounter complains about /home/.htaccess" on Solaris 2.x

Submitter: appro@fy.chalmers.se
Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 5.5
Version of Apache Used: 1.1b2
Extra Modules used: 
URL exhibiting problem: 

Symptoms:
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Hi! Me again...

Bug old as NCSA server... Server checks for
.htaccess files starting from / thus performing
a lot of redundant lstat() calls, hitting non
existing automounter mount points, refusing to
follow symbolic links below document root.

Below is a patch that fixes the problem.

*** http_request.c.orig Wed Apr 10 03:00:17 1996
--- http_request.c      Thu May  9 11:09:28 1996
***************
*** 262,270 ****
      num_dirs = count_dirs(test_filename);
      get_path_info (r);

!     if (S_ISDIR (r->finfo.st_mode)) ++num_dirs;

!     for (i = 1; i <= num_dirs; ++i) {
          core_dir_config *core_dir =
          (core_dir_config *)get_module_config(per_dir_defaults, &core_module);
        int allowed_here = core_dir->opts;
--- 262,286 ----
      num_dirs = count_dirs(test_filename);
      get_path_info (r);

!     if (S_ISDIR (r->finfo.st_mode)
!       && test_filename [strlen(test_filename)-1] != '/')
!         ++num_dirs;

!     { char *uri_end,*filename_end,c;
!         uri_end = r->uri + strlen(r->uri);
!         filename_end = test_filename + strlen(test_filename);
!         while (*filename_end == *uri_end
!           && filename_end != test_filename
!           && uri_end != r->uri)
!             filename_end--, uri_end--;
!         while (*filename_end && *filename_end != '/') filename_end++;
!         c = *filename_end;
!         *filename_end = '\0';
!         i = count_dirs(test_filename)+1;
!         *filename_end = c;
!     }
!
!     for (; i <= num_dirs; ++i) {
          core_dir_config *core_dir =
          (core_dir_config *)get_module_config(per_dir_defaults, &core_module);
        int allowed_here = core_dir->opts;

Idea is to match tails of uri and filename and
strip matching part off filename in order to obtain
document root for given uri.

Andy.

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