Bug in Apache 0.8.11 scriptalias (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ha...@hyperreal.com>]

Hmm, looks like we have a moving target on this ScriptAlias stuff,

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> From alethea@ukc.ac.uk  Fri Aug 25 06:55:08 1995
> To: apache-bugs@apache.org
> Subject: Bug in Apache 0.8.11 scriptalias
> X-Address: Alethea, Computing Lab., The University, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK
> X-URL: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/
> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:48:02 +0100
> Message-ID: <14...@nuntius.ukc.ac.uk>
> From: Alethea <al...@ukc.ac.uk>
> 
> 
> With the movement of the ScriptAlias command from mod_cgi.c to
> mod_alias.c, a bug has been introduced. Previously, ScriptAlias would
> handle /xxx/ and /xxx differently. Now, it behaves in the same way as
> Alias, i.e. it strips off any trailing slashes before proceeding.
> 
> In our current config, we have the following:
> 
> ScriptAlias /wp/ /usr/l/alethea/export/cgi/wp/nonpublic/
> ScriptAlias /wp /usr/l/alethea/export/cgi/wp/public/view
> 
> which enables us to have a CGI program called /wp, and various CGI
> programs inside /wp (such as /wp/edit). With the new modifications to
> ScriptAlias handling, this will not work.
> 
> 
> 
> Hope this is useful,
> -------
> Royston Shufflebotham (http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?94rws)
>   on behalf of the Alethea Group
> 
> 
> P.S. Could you tell me what email address I should use to pass on
> information about new modules to you? In particular, I have a SunOS
> dynamic-loading module working (I sent an earlier version of it to you
> in a previous patch), which now handles module-unloading/reloading
> during server re-config. This requires a small patch to http_config.c,
> and I expect that mod_dld.c could be modified to work in a similar
> fashion.
>