Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "multiviews not working as advertised?" on AIX

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

I'll pass your questions on to someone more familiar with
multiviews.

cheers,
rob


>Submitter: dkearns@mot.com
>Operating system: AIX, version: 4.1.3
>Version of Apache Used: 1.1b4
>Extra Modules used: nothing unstandard
>URL exhibiting problem: 
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>Not sure really if it's a bug, but I saw somewhere
>that one update was the ignoration of order in
>multiviews. eg foo.es.html = foo.html.es 
>this doesn't seem to be working. (no url, but
>it is a pretty quick test).
>
>Also, I thought this function would work on directories
>as well as files, but I cannot get it to work.
>(it makes more sense from a permissions perspective
>to have whole directories containing specific languages)
>
>Does it work on directories or do I need to hack that up myself?
>
>thanks guys. great product overall. the info module
>alone will save us uncountable grief (many thousands
>of aliases and redirects, some with order being important
>can be a headache, especially since the server gets
>started via an M4 expansion script, so each unit's
>aliases are segregated)
>-d
>--
>
>Backtrace:
>--
>
>--

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Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "multiviews not working as advertised?" on AIX

[Alexei Kosut <ak...@organic.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Rob Hartill wrote:

>Not sure really if it's a bug, but I saw somewhere
>that one update was the ignoration of order in
>multiviews. eg foo.es.html = foo.html.es 
>this doesn't seem to be working. (no url, but
>it is a pretty quick test).

No, not exactly. What the update you saw was is the ignoring of order of
extensions, yes, but not related to MultiViews - It still only works based
on the base paths of the files (you can't call foo.html to choose between
foo.en.html and foo.fr.html - but you can use foo.html to choose between
foo.html.en and foo.html.fr).

> Also, I thought this function would work on directories
> as well as files, but I cannot get it to work.
> (it makes more sense from a permissions perspective
> to have whole directories containing specific languages)
>
> Does it work on directories or do I need to hack that up myself?

MultiViews ignores directories. It didn't used to, but this caused all
sorts of problems, and was fixed in Apache 0.8.2.

Thanks for using Apache!

-- Alexei Kosut <ak...@organic.com>            The Apache HTTP Server 
   http://www.nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us/~akosut/      http://www.apache.org/