Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:33 +0200
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@en.muc.de>
Message-Id: <199606062123.AA15353@en.muc.de>
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Subject: Re: SUID layer for Apache CGI implementation...
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On 4 Jun 1996 08:32:31 +0200 in en.lists.apache-new-httpd you wrote:

> > Adding the ability to set the behaviour for user dirs would be nice.
> > Basing it on whether the URL contains '~' is not dependable since
> > that convention is not used on any of the servers I am running.

> 	Oh.  I forgot...not everybody does the tilde thing.  8)  IMHO, if
> it doesn't have a tilde, then it isn't a userdir.  But I guess we could
> have a UserDirPrefix option that allows you to specify '/users/' if your
> URLs are /user/someuser/index.html and /user/otheruser/index.html.  What
> about that?  Could this be made into a more general patch for
> Apache...allowing people to specify their userdir prefixes?  I'd rather
> see something more generic than a suCGIUserDirPrefix directive.  8)

The current mod_userdir.c already has support for such UserDirPrefixes and if
you cannot use that, then there is still mod_rewrite which can rewrite any
URL to the way you want.

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