>Number: 5016
>Category: config
>Synopsis: relative DocumentRoot support
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Wed Sep 15 17:50:01 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.3.6
>Environment:
Windows NT 4.0 With Microsoft Visual C 6.0
>Description:
We were hoping to have a portable httpd.conf file, which would work no matter
where people installed it, including using a relative path to the documents
being served. Only absolute paths work for DocumentRoot. Is this a bug or a
feature?
>How-To-Repeat:
Use a relative path in the DocumentRoot directive in the config file.
>Fix:
Adding one line works for simple sub-directories, (e.g. "script") but not for
what I really want, a sibliing directory, e.g. "../script".
*** http_core.c 1999/07/01 23:09:58 1.1
--- http_core.c 1999/09/16 00:19:33
***************
*** 1003,1008 ****
--- 1003,1009 ----
return err;
}
+ arg = ap_server_root_relative(cmd->pool, arg);
arg = ap_os_canonical_filename(cmd->pool, arg);
if (!ap_is_directory(arg)) {
if (cmd->server->is_virtual) {
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