As far as I know, all requested URLs must be referenced via the pageroot.
If you create a URL or a filesystem softlink that has an absolute path
like /home/scott/myweb/file, and pageroot is set to "/myweb", the server
won't follow the link. I've made that mistake before both in Apache and
AOLserver. It's the proper behavior. If someone does get that to work, I'd
say it's a bug that needs to be fixed.
That doesn't mean, however, that AOLserver itself cannot see or use files
referenced via the absolute path, just that it cannot server files via HTTP
outside of the pageroot. For example, you can point to an SSL cert via
nsopenssl in the nsd.tcl file via an absolute filesystem path. If pageroot
and the filesystem's root are the same, then it doesnt' matter, but you'd
not want to do this. In the case of a chrooted server, the absolute path
will still not work if your chroot top level dir is different from your
pageroot setting.
Hope this muddies the waters.
/s.
> Is this enforced in AS 3.x? Your note says "the web server cannot
follow...",
> which is only true if it is chrooted or there is some server code checking
> links (I think).
>
> Jim
>
> >
> > Hi Ellen,
> >
> > every web server has what's called a pageroot, the directory in the
> > filesystem where the web pages are served from. If the web server is
> > going to be able to follow a soft link, that softlink must be a relative
> > softlink rather than a fully-qualified path. Basically, you don't want
> > your web server to be able to access any files outside of it web space
> > (i.e. pageroot).
> >
> > This is ok:
> >
> > ln -s dir/subdir softlink
> >
> > This is ok:
> >
> > ls -s ../dir/subdir softlink
> >
> > This is NOT ok:
> >
> > ln -s /home/scott/dir/subdir softlink
> >
> >
> > In the last case, the web server cannot follow the path because it
> > begins outside of its pageroot, UNLESS your pageroot *is* set to /home.
> >
> > Let me know if you're still having problems with this,
> >
> >
> > /s.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: AOLserver Discussion [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf
> > Of Ellen Spertus
> > Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:44 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Symbolic links and directoryfile
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the reply.
> >
> > >Maybe you linked to a relative path
> > >incorrectly, or you linked to the absolute path rather than the path
> > >relative to the pageroot.
> >
> > I did link to an absolute path (/home/mailman/blahblah), which is not
> > under pageroot. Is that not allowed?
> >
> > Ellen
> >
>
>
