Re: [naviserver-devel] Following symbolic directory links with NaviServer possible?

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Christian A Vogl <c....@ki...> wrote:
> Yes, you're right, Stephen, thank you!
>
> Responsible's my own ns_returnforbidden, and I was misguided by the
> different behaviour for files and directories. In detail, for maybe
> helping other misguided half-blinds like me:
>
> I checked file access using TCL's "file normalize",
> which returns
>   "/path/to/real/file.ext"
> for requests of "/path/to/webserver/pages/symdir/file.ext" in a
> symbolically linked directory (symbolic link
>   "symdir --> /path/to/real"
> in physical naviserver page root "/path/to/webserver/pages"),
>
> but returns
>   "/path/to/webserver/pages/physdir/file.ext"
> if only "file.ext" links symbolically somewhere else (symbolic link
>   "file.ext --> /path/to/real/file.ext"
> in physical directory "/path/to/webserver/pages/realdir")
>
>
> So I just had to drop the normalizing.


Check out ns_register_fasturl2file:

  http://naviserver.sourceforge.net/n/naviserver/files/ns_register_url2file.html

It's like the 'mount' command in linux, or like symlinking one
directory to another.

Some examples (bit obscure...) here:

  http://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver/src/tip/tests/url2file.test#cl-73