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

[Neulinger, N. <nn...@um...>]

I'd be open to something like this... I know you sent something in the
past as well, but haven't ever had a chance to integrate it...

Either or both of the below options sound pretty good.

-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nn...@um...
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
UMR Information Technology             Fax: (573) 341-4216
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cgi...@li...=20
> [mailto:cgi...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Jo Rhett
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 12:00 AM
> To: cgi...@li...
> Subject: [cgiwrap-users] patch for handing user-based virtual=20
> hosts without~user
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> A bunch of us who use cgiwrap were joking about the fact that=20
> pretty  much
> everyone downloads cgiwrap and then hacks it to handle their=20
> virtualhost
> environments properly, but nobody resubmits the code back to=20
> the main tree.
> Kind of silly, everyone reinventing the world each time.  And=20
> it's a darn
> simple set of patches.
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> So I went to my boss and got permission to provide our=20
> versions of this patch.
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> The patch I'm proposing would provide a configure option like so:
> (option names are pulled from air and better suggestions are welcome)
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>   --user-directory-level=3D2
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> 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
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> We could instead (or in addition?) have another option for=20
> common paths.
> For example:
> 	 --user-directory-base=3D/home
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> Would mean that the username is provided underneath /home in the
> DOCUMENT_ROOT, for example
> 	/home/jrhett/public_html
> 	/home/jrhett/www/docs
> 	..etc
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> Advantages to me and you?  No funny ~username mapping=20
> required for virtual
> hosts.  Or not having to patch each new version after download :-)
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> Advantages to the mailing list?  Funny rewrite policies are no longer
> required.  That's usually the bulk of support requests.
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> Security considerations: only if DOCUMENT_ROOT can be=20
> overwritten before
> cgiwrap is invoked.
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> --=20
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