2005/07/01
IRC [00:00] <jla> the admin says !softlinks :)
IRC [00:01] <jla> I want to map one or more locations to a mailing list archive that is outside of the web root
IRC [00:01] <martinh> get a real admin. . .
IRC [00:01] <jla> does aolserver follow symlinks by default?
IRC [00:02] <martinh> i believe so. . .it always has for me.
IRC [00:03] <jla> interesting. some people claim that allowing webservers to follow symlinks can make them vulnerable to various problems
IRC [00:04] * jla doesn't know for sure what
IRC [00:04] <martinh> maybe some web servers.
IRC [00:05] <martinh> you could always just grab and compile the example. then you'll have it.
IRC [00:06] <jla> I'm trying that. I was just suprised it wasn't included with the main package.
IRC [00:07] * jla didn't realize it _was_ the right alias.so :)
IRC [00:08] <jla> is there a compiling guide somewhere, or will just "gcc -rdynamic -shared" do it
IRC [00:09] <martinh> no idea. i've always done ones with makefiles.
IRC [00:41] <jla> know of any alias.so with a makefile :)
IRC [00:57] <tekbasse> jla, maybe this? http://deadlock.et.tudelft.nl/~daniel/vhost.html
IRC [01:00] <jla> tekbasse: Thanks, but I'm looking for a different kind of alias. One that maps a URI to a different location on the filesystem than the standard mapping would do
IRC [01:01] <tekbasse> ok
IRC [01:01] <jla> eg: the "document root" is /var/www/<site> but I want /var/www/<site>/archives to really be /storage/archives
IRC [01:16] <tekbasse> hmm... since you know c, maybe you can look at how ns_cgi maps the executables, and use that to create a package that doesn't modify nsd code
IRC [01:19] <jla> tekbasse: It would take some time, but perhaps I will have to. I'm trying to compile this example program, and it looks like I need to recompile my tcl for threads (I guess my aolserver package is statically linked to whatever tcl it's using)
IRC [01:29] <tekbasse> jla, also read this thread for a tcl way of mapping files http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=24446
IRC [01:34] <jla> tekbasse: using tcl code in the config would be nicer. I'll try that proc method
IRC [02:27] <jla> tekbasse: Was that suppose to go in the config file?
IRC [02:27] <jla> tekbasse: invalid command name "ns_registerproc"
IRC [02:27] <jla> I'll keep looking. thanks for the input
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IRC [03:15] <tekbasse> oops, no not in the config file
IRC [03:23] <tekbasse> might put it in a 404 file or something
IRC [03:24] <tekbasse> of course, that's not really the right way to do it
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