On 5 Jun 2010, at 03:18, Dennis J. wrote:
> The nginx syntax may look C-like but it really isn't at all. For one thing
> it's declarative and then you have all kinds of weird behaviors with
> variables and control structures that make no sense if you're coming from
> C-like angle.
>
> I think what Brian is really aiming for is an actual procedural configuration
> that basically gets executed when a request arrives. Something along the line
> of:
>
> function handleReq( req ) {
> if( req.domain ~ www.test.com ) {
> documentRoot("/sites/test");
> customLog("/var/log/test.log","combined");
> return true;
> }
> }
mod_perl springs to mind as offering that kind of thing since the year dot.
In trunk we have <If "..expr.."> for the above kind of construct. Should at
least be
an improvement on hacking programmatic config with only single-IF and GOTO
as provided by mod_rewrite.
--
Nick Kew
