On Sun, 22 Jun 1997 22:29:24 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Synopsis: VirtualHost relative paths are being over-ridden by global > Alias paths > > State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback > State-Changed-By: dgaudet > State-Changed-When: Sun Jun 22 22:29:23 PDT 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > I'm really confused. What you've described is exactly how Alias is > supposed to work. If you set it globally outside of all servers > then it affects all of them ... You're saying 1.1 behaved differently? > What did it do? > > Dean
Let's see if I can briefly clarify... If I've defined in srm.conf Alias /images/ /var/www/images/ then I would expect any reference, anywhere on the server (VirtualHost or otherwise) to <SRC="/images/whatever.jpg"> to indeed expand and use file /var/www/images/whatever.jpg However, if we leave off the preceding "/", <SRC="images/whatever.jpg">, the alias should no longer be expanded, because this is a *relative* path, relative to the current working directory (aka "./images/whatever.jpg"). This is how it has worked in all Apache versions <= 1.1.3 I've ever used. In 1.2, however, I am still seeing the expected behavior in UserDir hierarchies (http://www.sfo.com/~user = ~user/public_html), but within <VirtualHost> hierarchies DocumentRoot /usr/home/user/public_html even relative references are being expanded by the global Alias definition. If we call up the same exact VirtualHost site using the ~user/public_html URL format (physical location is identical), all works as expected. (Note that I am not referring to an Alias defined within a <VirtualHost> block -- the Alias is defined only in srm.conf.) In other words, I would expect that <SRC="/images/whatever.jpg"> <SRC="images/whatever.jpg"> would point to two diffent places, but they do not. This is happening *only* within <VirtualHost>s and is definitely a change from previous behavior. (Believe me, since we've always instructed folks to use relative paths here, this affected many sites and we began hearing from these VirtualHost customers within hours of the switchover.) It is very easy to reproduce (at least here in our environment): - simply map a <VirtualHost> onto an existing UserDir site, and add an srm.conf Alias with the same name as a uniquely-named subdirectory within the site - <SRC="subdirectory/file"> will pull up just fine from an html reference when the site is called by UserDir URL, but will fail (in attempt to find expanded <SRC="/subdirectory/file">) if called up by VirtualHost URL. If need be, I can set up a test site here to demonstrate. William Sommers San Francisco Online Televolve, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
