Mailing List Archive: WWW Form Bug Report: "Alias is _not

WWW Form Bug Report: "Alias is _not_ back-compatible" on Ultrix (fwd)

Oct 5, 1995, 10:42 AM

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Anyone?

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> From nobody@hyperreal.com Wed Oct 4 18:13:32 1995
> Message-Id: <199510050113.SAA00225@taz.hyperreal.com>
> From: mcgrant@rascals.stanford.edu
> To: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com
> Date: Wed Oct 4 18:13:30 1995
> Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "Alias is _not_ back-compatible" on Ultrix
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> Submitter: mcgrant@rascals.stanford.edu
> Operating system: Ultrix, version: 4.4
> Extra Modules used:
> URL exhibiting problem:
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> Symptoms:
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> The following alias is ignored: Alias /~ /var/spool/WWW/people/ You may think I should use 'UserDir', but the list of users with web pages does not correspond to those with accounts on the system. So I have a directory with symbolic links to the WWW directories, and this alias takes care of things in NCSA httpd.
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Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Alias is _not_ back-compatible" on Ultrix (fwd) [ In reply to ]

drtr at ast

Oct 6, 1995, 2:05 PM

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> The following alias is ignored: Alias /~ /var/spool/WWW/people/

This is not a bug; it is a feature; this alias will not match URLs like
/~xxx only /~/xxx. Apache has behaved this way since 0.6. (After a patch
from RobH [B51].)

If we allow this feature, then
Alias /a xxxx
would match all URLs beginning /a.

The correct solution is to permit wildcards, then Alias /~* would suffice.

David.

Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Alias is _not_ back-compatible" on Ultrix (fwd) [ In reply to ]

awm at qosina

Oct 9, 1995, 6:26 AM

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Is this supposed to be working right now? Or is it a feature to be
added later?

<Aram>

At 02:05 PM 10/6/95 BST, you wrote:
>> The following alias is ignored: Alias /~ /var/spool/WWW/people/
>
>This is not a bug; it is a feature; this alias will not match URLs like
>/~xxx only /~/xxx. Apache has behaved this way since 0.6. (After a patch
>from RobH [B51].)
>
>If we allow this feature, then
>Alias /a xxxx
>would match all URLs beginning /a.
>
>The correct solution is to permit wildcards, then Alias /~* would suffice.
>
> David.
>
>
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Aram W. Mirzadeh, MIS Manager, Qosina Corporation
http://www.qosina.com/~awm/, awm@qosina.com
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