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From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Apache bugs database <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Subject: config/1649: .htaccess is searched UNDER DocumentRoot (fwd)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 07:42:16 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 16:34:27 +0200 (MET)
From: Aidas Kasparas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: .htaccess is searched UNDER DocumentRoot
Dear Colleagues,
I know official state of this question is "closed" but I had problems
with this behavior, I made some changes and would like to share my
results.
Let's count:
o in standard installation with documents located in
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs apache tries to open .htaccess file in 5
directories above the point where all documents are stored;
o in case of user www space (i.e. documents under
/home/user/public_html) 3 opens;
o in case of expert installation (i.e. /web/{cust1, cust2, ...,
custN} - 2 opens.
If in any of these paths indirect automounter map is involved (I
know - this is lame, but we do live in not perfect world) -
one risks to get his log filled with messages that system can't mount some
.htaccess files for the simple reason that they do not exist.
Are these files used in practice in these places? IMHO on 99.9% of
all servers - no (I may be wrong). The only use for them that comes to my
mind is configuring hierarchies like:
/web/
cheap_plan_cust/
.htaccess
cust11/
cust12/
....
expensive_plan_cust/
.htaccess
cust21/
cust22/
...
but even in this case it is possible to achieve required
functionality by inspecting only a limited number of directories above
corresponding document space (that could be configured at startup with
default to 0).
So my patch tries to force server start search of access files
from corresponding document root. It seams that it succeeds in case of
server documents or ~user files. But can fail if rewrite module or some
other module that maps URIs to filenames in funny way is in use. To handle
this correctly it is necessary to make more global changes to server code
(in particular - require that filename formation code separate path into
2 parts - document root and path within document space).
You are welcome to use this patch in any way but I am not
responsible for any consequences. I also will be happy to answer your
questions and discuss further about this problem.
Aidas
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