Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-29 Thread darren chamberlain

Michael A Nachbaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something to this effect on 01/28/2002:
 Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
 .htaccess file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request
 directory (and all directories above it) for an .htaccess file
 before serving a file request, but there is no mention of how
 it goes about loading that file.

Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
backend that Does The Right Thing.

(darren)

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Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-29 Thread dom

  Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
  .htaccess file dynamically? 
 Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
 backend that Does The Right Thing.

Whoops, you would loose big when two concurrent Apache processes
attempt to access the .htaccess simultaneously... Why not rewrite
AuthenHandler instead (we are on mod_perl list right ?)

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Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

   Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an
   .htaccess file dynamically? 
  Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the
  backend that Does The Right Thing.
 
 Whoops, you would loose big when two concurrent Apache processes
 attempt to access the .htaccess simultaneously... 

Not if the file is small enough...low level reads are granular up to,
I think 8k. Maybe.

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Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-28 Thread Michael A Nachbaur

Hello all,

Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an .htaccess
file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request directory (and all
directories above it) for an .htaccess file before serving a file request,
but there is no mention of how it goes about loading that file.

thanks.

-man




Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-28 Thread Matt Sergeant

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Michael A Nachbaur wrote:

 Hello all,

 Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an .htaccess
 file dynamically?  I know Apache checks the request directory (and all
 directories above it) for an .htaccess file before serving a file request,
 but there is no mention of how it goes about loading that file.

Not that I know of, but you can hook in there custom parsing code. It's
way too complex to explain though, so I suggest you get the eagle book
which goes into details on it.

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