I'm looking at http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/#ToC4 right now, at the bottom for an external rewriting engine...
wouldn't this take "http://www.server.com/foo/HelloWorld.html"; and then just basically ask apache to find a document "http://www.server.com/..\..\[as many as needed to get to root dir]/bret/HelloWorld.html" ? Wouldn't that open a large security hole? Bret -----Original Message----- From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Need help adding symlink-like capability to Apache on NT >Read the docs for mod_rewrite. If you really want to invoke an external >program to do the mappings it's trivial, you don't need to change the code >at all. In any event, what you want can be done in a module, you don't >need to patch the core. > >Dean > >On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, 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
