Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

[Michael A Nachbaur <mi...@nachbaur.com>]

Hello all,

Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an .htaccess
file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request directory (and all
directories above it) for an .htaccess file before serving a file request,
but there is no mention of how it goes about loading that file.

thanks.

-man

Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

[Dave Hodgkinson <da...@davehodgkinson.com>]

dom@idealx.com writes:

> > > Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
> > > .htaccess file dynamically? 
> > Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
> > backend that Does The Right Thing.
> 
> Whoops, you would loose big when two concurrent Apache processes
> attempt to access the .htaccess simultaneously... 

Not if the file is small enough...low level reads are granular up to,
I think 8k. Maybe.

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Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

[do...@idealx.com]

> > Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
> > .htaccess file dynamically? 
> Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
> backend that Does The Right Thing.

Whoops, you would loose big when two concurrent Apache processes
attempt to access the .htaccess simultaneously... Why not rewrite
AuthenHandler instead (we are on mod_perl list right ?)

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Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

[darren chamberlain <dl...@users.sourceforge.net>]

Michael A Nachbaur <mi...@nachbaur.com> said something to this effect on 01/28/2002:
> Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
> .htaccess file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request
> directory (and all directories above it) for an .htaccess file
> before serving a file request, but there is no mention of how
> it goes about loading that file.

Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
backend that Does The Right Thing.

(darren)

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Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Michael A Nachbaur wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an .htaccess
> file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request directory (and all
> directories above it) for an .htaccess file before serving a file request,
> but there is no mention of how it goes about loading that file.

Not that I know of, but you can hook in there custom parsing code. It's
way too complex to explain though, so I suggest you get the eagle book
which goes into details on it.

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