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From: Stefan Fritsch <sf@sfritsch.de>
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Subject: Re: SetVirtualDocumentRoot
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:35:53 +0100
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On Wednesday 10 November 2010, Rich Bowen wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Pl=FCm, R=FCdiger, VF-Group wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Rich Bowen
> >> To: dev@httpd.apache.org
> >> Subject: SetVirtualDocumentRoot
> >>=20
> >> I was reading bug reports this morning, and wondered if
> >> someone could
> >> take a look at the patch offered here:
> >>=20
> >> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D26052#c19
> >=20
> > The patch doesn't look appealing to me. Having a module changing
> > the core config
> > on the fly always looks nasty to me, even more so if it stores
> > data in the core config
> > structure that is allocated from a request pool. IMHO this is
> > waiting for all
> > nasty things to happen, SEGFAULT at best.
>=20
> Ok. Fair enough. How about something that set the ENV var for just
> the current request?
>=20
> The frequency with which this gets asked seems to make it
> worthwhile doing something, even if this patch isn't the right
> thing to do.

Maybe the larger solution of having a document_root field in the=20
request_rec would be better. Has anyone had a chance to look at=20
Ondrej's patch, already? I didn't get around to doing it, yet.

https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D49705