Hello. I am porting our authorization module to mpm_worker from mpm_prefork. This authorization module was using some ugly, but nevertheless working hack which messes with mod_rewrite configuration.
This authorization module check user permissions for current url A and rewrites url to AA or AB according to permission check result. Because I didn't want to reimplement mod_rewrite and because mod_rewrite don't have any API for url rewriting, this ugly hack was made. I am changing mod_rewrite configuration on the fly, putting A->AA or A->AB RewriteRule to it. I hope you understood that. Ok. This works. But only in mpm_prefork, where only one execution thread exists in apache process. Now I need same functionality, but in mpm_worker. And I don't have idea how to do it easily. Only two ideas came into my mind: 1) Reimplement needed mod_rewrite functionality in out authorization module. 2) Patch or fork mod_rewrite module. Implement some API (like rewrite(from, to);) which could be used for url rewriting with full mod_rewrite power. 3) Patch mod_rewrite and enclose RewriteRules configuration with locks. Sick! Ugly! What do you think? I am looking forward for comments and advices. Thanks. -- Marko Kevac Sent from Moscow, Mow, Russia
