[users@httpd] serving two filesystem trees "overlaid"

[Andrew Pimlott <an...@pimlott.net>]

Is it possible (in Apache 1) to have a URL path map to two (or more)
filesystem paths, using the first file found?  So the effect is like
one filesystem tree overlaid on another.

The reason I ask for this is I want to serve plain files and scripts
in the same URL namespace, but keep them in different directories to
reduce the risk of a script being served as a plain file, and
vice-versa.  For example, I might have /www/files/a.html and
/www/scripts/b.html, where http://example.com/a.html sends the file,
and http://example.com/b.html runs the script.  I would use
<directory> directives to ensure that everything in /www/files is
sent as a file, and everything in /www/scripts is run as a script.

As you can see from the example, I don't want to use different
naming conventions for files and scripts, so I can't use a simple
pattern to determine the correct path.  It is necessary to check
which tree actually contains the file.

I can probably hack up some solution in mod_rewrite or mod_perl, but
I wondered if there is a more idiomatic way to do this.  If not, can
you think of any other way to achieve my goal?

Andrew

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
   "   from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org

Re: [users@httpd] serving two filesystem trees "overlaid"

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

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Andrew Pimlott wrote:

> Is it possible (in Apache 1) to have a URL path map to two (or more)
> filesystem paths, using the first file found?  So the effect is like
> one filesystem tree overlaid on another.

> I can probably hack up some solution in mod_rewrite or mod_perl, but
> I wondered if there is a more idiomatic way to do this.  If not, can
> you think of any other way to achieve my goal?

mod_rewrite is the standard way to do this.  See "search pages in more
than one directory" under
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html#url

Joshua.

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project.
See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info.
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
   "   from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org