rewrite workaround for AcceptPathInfo

["firepages.com.au" <fi...@firepages.com.au>]

Hi, I posted some time ago about AcceptPathInfo appearing broken in apache2
, & submitted a bug report which is now resolved in as much as it is marked
'fixed in 2.0.36'

Until then I was hoping someone could give me a helping hand with a rewrite
replacement to provide the lookback feature of apache that existed until
apache2...

i.e. for a search-engine friendly page I have e.g.
somedomain.com/realpage.htm/var1/var2/etc/

apache 1.3.20+ used to 'lookback' to 'realpage.htm' and place
$var1,$var2,$etc into the $PATH_INFO server variable which I could then
parse to my hearts content.

how can I achieve the same or similar results with mod_rewrite ? I have
looked at the documentation and examples but my head hurts pretty soon
afterwards... I basically need to grab all the /var/var1/var2/ etc after the
valid page request 'realpage.htm' and place them in a server variable that I
can then call in my scripts

Any help much appreciated.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Nelson" <pe...@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
To: <us...@httpd.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: New GUI for Apache


> Here's a big 'what if . . .'
>
> I've heard that the apache documentation starts out in some XML format
> (is this correct?) and then is transformed into HTML.  What if there was
> a way to access that XML, and use it to see if the config directive you
> want to use is correct for your version of Apache and correct for the
> context in which it's being used?  You could also use the XML to
> reference any 'help' on a specific directive.
>
> I personally favor vi for configuring my server, but you certainly
> could build a handy program for the novice just getting started - even
> if it was a simple editor that allowed context-sesitive help.
>
> --
> Pete Nelson, Web Developer
> <pe...@ci.stpaul.mn.us>
> http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/
>
> >>> ef@kwinternet.com 04/23/02 12:58PM >>>
> Yeah, that is for sure! Try using the "migration tool" from IBM
> webserver
> config to Apache config, will ruin your day big time :)
>
> Still, it just sounds like lots of accounting work, version X no this
> version Y yes that, very tedious, if the tool is to work at all.
>
>
>
> Eric
>
>
> >In general, Unix sysadmins tend to ignore things such as this because
> of
> >their innate complexity and propensity to sod things up pretty badly.
> In
> >my own experience, it is faster to RTFM and edit the config file by
> hand
> >then try to use a GUI configurator, have it blow my configs all to
> hell,
> >and then try to fix things.
> >
> >
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> >
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Re: rewrite workaround for AcceptPathInfo

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, firepages.com.au wrote:

> Hi, I posted some time ago about AcceptPathInfo appearing broken in apache2
> , & submitted a bug report which is now resolved in as much as it is marked
> 'fixed in 2.0.36'
>
> Until then I was hoping someone could give me a helping hand with a rewrite
> replacement to provide the lookback feature of apache that existed until
> apache2...

If you are comfortable with compiling apache yourself, I would just grab
the current development version of apache from cvs or from
http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/httpd-2.0/

The only compilcation is that you need to have libtool/autoconf
and you need to run "buildconf" before you run "configure".

Joshua.


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