Bret McMillan wrote: > > You have a valid concern... let me explain a bit more. Right now, > shortcuts are used in place of symlinks. > If you had a "foo" symlink on the linux version, on the nt version it is > represented by "foo.lnk". These shortcut files are created at install time. > > Assume foo.lnk exists in your httpdoc directory. Assume foo.lnk links to > C:\Bret\, in which HelloWord.html exists. > > What I want to happen is for a url request of > "http://www.server.com/foo/HelloWorld.html"; displays the contents of > HelloWorld.html. > > We have an executable program that will do this: > > Commandline: "slink foo/HelloWorld.html" > Cout's: "/bret/HelloWorld.html" > > So that part is essentially done. What we're trying to figure out is where > to integrate that into apache's code. > > Thanks for any and all info, > > Bret > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Jones, FCCJ Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:39 PM > Subject: Re: Need help adding symlink-like capability to Apache on NT > > >Bret McMillan wrote: > >> > >> We've devised a system for using shortcuts like symlinks. What we need > to > >> do is, given a url that may contain "symlinks", we need to internally > >> resolve that name into a full NT path so that apache works with the > correct > >> file/directory. We have the code for this, but we aren't quite sure what > >> entry points in the code to work with (started looking at the source > today). > >> Can anyone provide some hints? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Bret McMillan > > > > > >So, basically, you are saying that everything 'outside' of the > >DocRoot and/or CGI directories are available to the 'public'? > > > >Not sure that is what you want to do... > > > >Just thinking out loud... > >-Sneex- :] > >______________________________________________________________________ > >Bill Jones | FCCJ Webmaster | http://www.fccj.org/cgi/mail?webmaster > > http://certserver.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x37EFC00F > >
Dean, in another reply, has a valid point with mod_rewrite; however, my question would be - Did it work right under Linux with the soft links? Allowing soft (or hard) links outside of DocRoot is not a good idea, at any rate. I know that Apache's cgi functionality doesn't follow links when they are cgi-centric, not sure about NT. Apache is a great WWW server, but modifying the core distribution, especially in NT, isn't a good idea. Anyways, if I remember correctly, all you need to do is turn on WWW-centric shares for the content you wish to share. I have never gotten Apache to follow a link on NT. But, I do use Unix servers more, so there may be another way... HTH, -Sneex- :] ______________________________________________________________________ Bill Jones | FCCJ Webmaster | http://www.fccj.org/cgi/mail?webmaster http://certserver.pgp.com:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x37EFC00F
