Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 07:37:03 +0200
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@en.muc.de>
Message-Id: <199605290537.AA03835@en.muc.de>
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Subject: Re: mod_uri_remap.c
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On 29 May 1996 03:17:51 +0200 in en.lists.apache-new-httpd you wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 1996, Dirk.vanGulik wrote:

> > > > It does
> > > >     Maps 'null' '/' and '/.' to a specified URI
> > > >     Effective rename on URI level.
> > > 
> > > This job could be done also via the more powerful and generic mod_rewrite:
> > > 
> > >     RewriteRule ^/$ /rootfile.html
> > 
> > Yep, I am currently using it; this is just an old leftover from before the
> > regexps time; since I was posting this blurp it went along.

> Do, given this, if we think mod_rewrite is the way to go, does it make 
> mod_uri_remap redundant?  If the first subsumes the functionality of the 
> latter, I'd prefer to go with that...

As the autor of mod_rewrite I say:

1. Yes, I'm sure that mod_rewrite subsumes the functionality of mod_uri_remap
   totally.
2. Yes, I think but are currently not 100% sure, that mod_rewrite subsumes
   also all functionality of mod_alias. I will check this fact in the next
   days, i.e. mod_alias is totally redundand if using mod_rewrite.  But I
   think this _IS_ correct. But I have to look more precisly at the Redirect
   and ScriptAlias directives of mod_alias to be 100% sure.

If mod_rewrite could really replace mod_alias and mod_uri_remap, then I will
vote for using it instead of the latter two ;-)

Greetings,
                                        Ralf S. Engelschall    
                                        rse@en.muc.de
                                        http://www.muc.de/~rse