Look at mod_alias, it has examples of rewriting urls to files. With a
little effort you can rewrite files to files.
Dean
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Bret McMillan wrote:
> I *did* look at doing it w/ a module... perhaps I still misunderstand
> something. Rewrite simply rewrites the url, correct? It translates one url
> into another, then apache handles the new one normally, right? The problem
> with this scheme is that the link system we use does *not* create urls the
> server can handle... but rather things like "c:\bret\foo.html\" So what I
> plan on doing is, given a url, instead of the "dumb" translation apache
> does, include a simple function call that looks for shortcuts/symlinks and
> provides the *true* filename.
>
> I have no idea if this is the best way to do it, and am totally open to
> suggestions. However, I only started looking at apache's source yesterday,
> and also started learning about the module system yesterday as well.
> Consequently, I don't have a full grasp of how everything fits together.
> Please excuse any and all ignorance on my part :)
>
> Bret
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
> To: apache-docs@apache.org <apache-docs@apache.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 6:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Possible shortcut/symlink entry point
>
>
> >You missed a really important point I mentioned: you can do it in a
> >module, you don't have to touch the core. There's a reason I said that...
> >'cause if you write a module you don't have to do much work to maintain it
> >as you update the core code with new releases.
> >
> >Dean
> >
> >On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Bret McMillan wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, I think I found what we're looking for...
> >>
> >> static int core_translate(...)
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the feedback.
> >>
> >> Bret
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>