Re: [Webware-discuss] Another apache detail...

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 14:28, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Jason Hildebrand <ja...@pe...>:
> [...]
> > I use Debian and my apache config is in two files: httpd.conf and 
> > srm.conf.
> 
> Yes, I guess that's pretty standard... Although through the years I've
> only used the httpd.conf.

They are read in some order, and order does matter, but they are all
processed equivalently.

> > The scriptalias directive which defines the cgi directory is in srm.conf:
> > 
> >     ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
> 
> Right. I've got that in httpd.conf. I also added it specifically to
> the virtual server I was working on.
> 
> > and I added my rewrite directives into httpd.conf:
> > 
> > RewriteEngine On
> > RewriteRule ^/remote$ /remote/ [L,R]
> > RewriteRule ^/remote/(.*) /cgi-bin/WebKit.cgi/$1 [L,PT]
> 
> Hm. It seems that the PT option does the trick, although I don't see
> why. I guess I'll read the docs on that option more closely, then :)
> 
> (And, of course, that's what's done in the Wiki recipe... I thought I
> had tried it, but I guess I hadn't :)
> 
> BTW: I still think a mention of this would be useful in the
> installation guide, and not just in some wiki somewhere...

The Wiki documentation could probably stand to be beefed up.  I mostly
just put what I used, at a time when I had already mostly forgotten why
I used it that way.  PT I believe tells Apache to keep processing the
URL -- in this case, to do the ScriptAlias translation.  L by itself
means to process the URL directly -- it also shortcuts any mod_webkit
mapping.

  Ian