Hi,
I encountered the following problem with Apache HTTPD on Windows:
* lets suppose that server root is "C:\ABC\XYZ\root";
* httpd service have all appropriate access permissions
for the server root;
* but httpd service doesn't have any access permission for
the parents of the root. E.g. httpd service doesn't have
access to "C:\ABC" and "C:\ABC\XYZ"
* in this case httpd failed to start with error message "Invalid file
path C:\ABC\XYZ\root\conf\htpasswd" if AuthUserFile directive used.
We did researched and found that this happens with most Apache
directives, because they use a function ap_server_root_relative (),
which in turn causes apr_filepath_merge () with a flag
APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME.
This change was introduced in r90571 [1], before r90571
ap_make_full_path() used which does not perform file path resolution
like apr_filepath_merge with flag APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME does.
We have the following questions:
* what is the reason to use APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME argument in that place?
* is it possible to remove APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME argument in the trunk
of Apache HTTP Server? (see attached patch)
Any comments will be helpful.
[1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=90571
--
Ivan Zhakov
VisualSVN Team
--- server\config.c.orig 2008-12-02 16:28:22.000000000 +0300
+++ server\config.c 2009-06-21 23:35:24.412000000 +0400
@@ -1351,8 +1351,8 @@
{
char *newpath = NULL;
apr_status_t rv;
- rv = apr_filepath_merge(&newpath, ap_server_root, file,
- APR_FILEPATH_TRUENAME, p);
+ rv = apr_filepath_merge(&newpath, ap_server_root, file, 0, p);
+
if (newpath && (rv == APR_SUCCESS || APR_STATUS_IS_EPATHWILD(rv)
|| APR_STATUS_IS_ENOENT(rv)
|| APR_STATUS_IS_ENOTDIR(rv))) {
