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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Using an Alias as second argument to Action
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On 4/7/06, nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using Action on a handler created by AddHandler and it works just
> fine but Action takes a virtual path as second argument so the file must
> be in the web root directory for the vhost. I'd like to use a predefined
> Alias pointing to a global place in the file system for the Action. This
> is an example of what i'm doing right now.
>
> <VirtualHost ip:port>
> <Directory /web/root>
> AddHandler php-v4 .php
> Action php-v4 /cgi-bin/program.cgi
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> This works but requires us to put the binary executable file in each web
> root directory for each vhost. This is what we want to do but it
> produces 500 errors.
>
> Alias /cgi-bin /usr/home/cgi-bin
> <VirtualHost ip:port>
> <Directory /web/root>
> AddHandler php-v4 .php
> Action php-v4 /cgi-bin/program.cgi
> </Directory>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I'm using Apache HTTPD 2.2.0 for all of this.

And what is in the error log?

In general, I don't see the point in the complication of Action when
you can simply do
AliasMatch (.*)\.php$ /usr/home/cgi-bin/program.cgi/$1
(although this may require small changes in your script).

Joshua.

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