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Subject: Re: general/704: VirtualHost relative paths are being over-ridden by
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Synopsis: VirtualHost relative paths are being over-ridden by global Alias paths

State-Changed-From-To: feedback-closed
State-Changed-By: dgaudet
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov  9 01:44:47 PST 1997
State-Changed-Why:
Sorry I took so long to close this one out.  Apache is behaving
correctly.

<img src="images/foo.gif"> is a relative URL which the client
translates into an absolute URL before sending the request to
the server.  Suppose this tag is embedded in a page at
http://www.vhost.com/index.html.  In that case, the relative
"images/foo.gif" is mapped to the absolute
"http://www.vhost.com/images/foo.gif".

This results in the URI "/images/foo.gif", which is properly
Aliased by your global Alias directive.

i.e. in this case <img src="/images/foo.gif"> and
<img src="images/foo.gif"> refer to the exact same object.

Regarding your other example, in ~userdir situations, the
relative URL "images/foo.gif" refers to the absolute URI
"/~userdir/images/foo.gif" which is definately different
than "/images/foo.gif".

Your only options are to not use "images" URIs in vhosts,
or to remove the global Alias /images.

Dean