[cgiwrap-users] patch for handing user-based virtual hosts without ~user

[Jo R. <jr...@sv...>]

A bunch of us who use cgiwrap were joking about the fact that pretty  much
everyone downloads cgiwrap and then hacks it to handle their virtualhost
environments properly, but nobody resubmits the code back to the main tree.
Kind of silly, everyone reinventing the world each time.  And it's a darn
simple set of patches.

So I went to my boss and got permission to provide our versions of this patch.

The patch I'm proposing would provide a configure option like so:
(option names are pulled from air and better suggestions are welcome)

  --user-directory-level=2

Would mean that the username is provided in the second level of the
DOCUMENT_ROOT, for example
	/home/jrhett/public_html
		-or-
	/home/jrhett/www/docs
		-or-
	/servers/jrhett/www
		...etc

We could instead (or in addition?) have another option for common paths.
For example:
	 --user-directory-base=/home

Would mean that the username is provided underneath /home in the
DOCUMENT_ROOT, for example
	/home/jrhett/public_html
	/home/jrhett/www/docs
	..etc

Advantages to me and you?  No funny ~username mapping required for virtual
hosts.  Or not having to patch each new version after download :-)

Advantages to the mailing list?  Funny rewrite policies are no longer
required.  That's usually the bulk of support requests.

Security considerations: only if DOCUMENT_ROOT can be overwritten before
cgiwrap is invoked.

-- 
Jo Rhett
senior geek
SVcolo : Silicon Valley Colocation