Re: serve items in "lib" or "PATH" fashion

André Warnier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:31 AM, André Warnier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> E.g. I would be happy if I could write this in the Apache configuration :
>>
>> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/site1/cgi-bin/;/var/www/global/cgi-bin/
>>
>> and have Apache look first in the local one, then in the global one each
>> time it is looking for a given script.  And similarly for other documents
>> like javascript libraries.
> 
> Use mod_rewrite.  See "Search pages in more than one directory":
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
> 
Thanks, Perrin.
I didn't know mod_rewrite could to do that.

But isn't there an error in the examples shown ?

RewriteCond         /your/docroot/dir1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}  -f
RewriteRule  ^(.+)  /your/docroot/dir1/$1  [L]

If the original URL is e.g. "/cgi-bin/myscript.pl", and I wanted to check the local 
directory "/cgi-local" first, then this would evaluate to

RewriteCond         /my/docroot/cgi-local/myscript.pl  -f
but the "^(.+)" of the second line would evaluate to "/cgi-bin/myscript.pl"
which would give a final URL of : "/my/docroot/cgi-local/cgi-bin/myscript.pl"
which is probably not what I want.

Instead, should the example rule not be something like :

RewriteRule  ^.*$  /dir1/%{REQUEST_FILENAME}  [L]

?
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