general/4807: Action, SetHandler, and Location interaction. Trying to mimic SetHandler server-info with a different handler.

[Peter Kazmier <pe...@kazmier.com>]

>Number:         4807
>Category:       general
>Synopsis:       Action, SetHandler, and Location interaction. Trying to mimic SetHandler server-info with a different handler.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug  1 13:20:00 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     pete-apache@kazmier.com
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.3.3 and 1.3.6
>Environment:
RH 5.2, apache rpm
Linux view 2.0.36 #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 i486 unknown
>Description:
I am trying to mimic the following behavior:

<Location /server-status>
SetHandler server-status
</Location>

with my own handler, lets call it server-uptime.  As far as I can
tell (based on the documentation), I think the config should look
like this:

Action server-uptime /cgi-bin/uptime.cgi
<Location /server-uptime>
SetHandler server-uptime
</Location>

Shouldn't that work?  Unfortunately, I have not been able to get this
working UNLESS I actually have a file called "server-uptime" in the
DocumentRoot.  Even so, I still get the error "Handler "server-uptime"
not found.

My questions are:

1) Why does the file "server-uptime" have to exist when
   "server-status" in the first example doesn't have to?

2) Why do I get the "handler not found" message in my error log?

Any info/help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Pete
>How-To-Repeat:
http://www.kazmier.com/server-uptime
>Fix:

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