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[users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc.
Hello,
Since I did not found similar question on the list I decided to post
this one.
This is how it goes.
I keep user www pages in directories like this:
/storage/{hexa value of first username character}/{hexa value of second
username character}/username/www
All the users are virtual ftp users authenticated from pgsql database.
I would like to serve users content in a way it can be seen on the web like:
http://users.domain.com/username -- without ~ sign
What I would probably need is some rewrite rule that would redirect the
request to the proper userdir. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jaka
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc.
Posted by musicdts <mu...@hotmail.com>.
Just place a file, 'index.html', in the user
directory...
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From: "Jaka Erjavec" <ja...@telemach.net>
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Subject: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign,
different dirs, etc.
Hello,
Since I did not found similar question on the list
I decided to post
this one.
This is how it goes.
I keep user www pages in directories like this:
/storage/{hexa value of first username
character}/{hexa value of second
username character}/username/www
All the users are virtual ftp users authenticated
from pgsql database.
I would like to serve users content in a way it
can be seen on the web like:
http://users.domain.com/username -- without ~ sign
What I would probably need is some rewrite rule
that would redirect the
request to the proper userdir. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jaka
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc. - fixed
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
> I tried this "prg:" option first with some perl script and it worked
> fine, but slow.
>
> Now I asked a friend of mine to rewrite (I am not a C programmer at
> all) that perl script in C for better performance, but now we just can
> not get it to return the local path result to Apache.
> In rewrite log file it gets only to:
> -----------
> applying pattern '^/([a-z0-9]+)(.*)' to uri '/jakae'
> ------------
>
> I was wondering if somebody might already have some example C program
> that works in this case.
The script just needs to take input on stdin and write it to stdout. Make
sure everything is non-buffered, and you shouldn't have a big problem.
But I'm guessing that C won't fix the bottleneck.
It could be that you are running into a problem because all the apache
processes share the same RewriteMap program. Hence there could be a
backlog waiting for that program to be free.
You'd need to do some careful performance measurement to see if that is
the problem.
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc. - fixed
Posted by Jaka Erjavec <ja...@telemach.net>.
I tried this "prg:" option first with some perl script and it worked
fine, but slow.
Now I asked a friend of mine to rewrite (I am not a C programmer at
all) that perl script in C for better performance, but now we just can
not get it to return the local path result to Apache.
In rewrite log file it gets only to:
-----------
applying pattern '^/([a-z0-9]+)(.*)' to uri '/jakae'
------------
I was wondering if somebody might already have some example C program
that works in this case.
Thanks,
Jaka
Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
>
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I fixed the problem using the prg as you suggested.
>>Short perl script should do the work as described at the end of
>>http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/misc/rewriteguide.html
>>
>>But I am wondering how CPU intensive it might get under many requests.
>>This way I can also solve the ~ problem.
>
>
> Because mod_rewrite keeps the mapping program constantly open and
> communicates with it on a pipe, it shouldn't be too bad. It is certainly
> much quicker than running a cgi script, which many do on every request.
>
> What I would be more worried about it stability: both of your script and
> of mod_rewrite. You need to be very careful with coding your script, and
> you need to be very careful when upgrading apache, because this is a
> complex feature that occasionally gets broken. But if you do proper
> testing, you should be ok.
>
> Joshua.
>
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc. - fixed
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I fixed the problem using the prg as you suggested.
> Short perl script should do the work as described at the end of
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/misc/rewriteguide.html
>
> But I am wondering how CPU intensive it might get under many requests.
> This way I can also solve the ~ problem.
Because mod_rewrite keeps the mapping program constantly open and
communicates with it on a pipe, it shouldn't be too bad. It is certainly
much quicker than running a cgi script, which many do on every request.
What I would be more worried about it stability: both of your script and
of mod_rewrite. You need to be very careful with coding your script, and
you need to be very careful when upgrading apache, because this is a
complex feature that occasionally gets broken. But if you do proper
testing, you should be ok.
Joshua.
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc. - fixed
Posted by Jaka Erjavec <ja...@telemach.net>.
Hello,
I fixed the problem using the prg as you suggested.
Short perl script should do the work as described at the end of
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/misc/rewriteguide.html
But I am wondering how CPU intensive it might get under many requests.
This way I can also solve the ~ problem.
Thanks,
Jaka
Joshua Slive wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
>
>>I keep user www pages in directories like this:
>>
>>/storage/{hexa value of first username character}/{hexa value of second
>>username character}/username/www
>>
>>All the users are virtual ftp users authenticated from pgsql database.
>>
>>I would like to serve users content in a way it can be seen on the web like:
>>
>>http://users.domain.com/username -- without ~ sign
>>
>>What I would probably need is some rewrite rule that would redirect the
>>request to the proper userdir. Any suggestions?
>
>
> This is a slightly tough one. The only way I can think of doing this is
> using an external "prg" type RewriteMap in mod_rewrite. Then this program
> would be responsible for doing the conversion from username to directory.
>
> A more efficient, and possible easier alternative, would be to simply hack
> mod_userdir to handle requests without the ~.
>
> Joshua.
>
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Re: [users@httpd] Userdir tilde sign, different dirs, etc.
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Jaka Erjavec wrote:
> I keep user www pages in directories like this:
>
> /storage/{hexa value of first username character}/{hexa value of second
> username character}/username/www
>
> All the users are virtual ftp users authenticated from pgsql database.
>
> I would like to serve users content in a way it can be seen on the web like:
>
> http://users.domain.com/username -- without ~ sign
>
> What I would probably need is some rewrite rule that would redirect the
> request to the proper userdir. Any suggestions?
This is a slightly tough one. The only way I can think of doing this is
using an external "prg" type RewriteMap in mod_rewrite. Then this program
would be responsible for doing the conversion from username to directory.
A more efficient, and possible easier alternative, would be to simply hack
mod_userdir to handle requests without the ~.
Joshua.
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