I remember a discussion about general support for this kind of expression parsing after I asked for it via IRC/list but cannot remember what became of it. It would definitely be neat to have that kind of thing in there - much less copy-n-paste like config sections ! Glad to hear there's progress on this front. Thanks !
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: > On 22 Jan 2014, at 5:36 PM, Thomas Eckert <thomas.r.w.eck...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Some time ago I put up HTTP to HTTPS redirects in place which now needed > an update so they would not only work for constant host names but use the > 'Host' header information as target host. > So a simple > Redirect permanent / https://example.org/ > wasn't enough. I wanted to avoid using mod_rewrite (not included in my > configs so far anyway) and stick with the much simpler mod_alias so I read > through mod_alias.c. From what I could see there wasn't any means to do get > this working so I came up with > > > This looks like a job for the expression parser, ie this: > > Redirect permanent / https://%{HOST}/ > > (Syntax off top of head, probably wrong). > > Having done expression parser for the require directive, my next one on > the wishlist was DocumentRoot (to replace the mass virtual hosting module) > followed by mod_alias. > > Regards, > Graham > -- > >
