The following reply was made to PR general/3865; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: John Hascall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3865: ScriptAlias gives CGI a bogus SCRIPT_NAME env var
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 12:02:38 CST
> Synopsis: ScriptAlias gives CGI a bogus SCRIPT_NAME env var
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open-feedback
> State-Changed-By: marc
> State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 9 09:47:08 PST 1999
> State-Changed-Why:
> Erm... I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say.
> You say:
>
> >given: ScriptAlias /env/ /var/www/cgi-bin/envshow/catalog/
> >the CGI script gets SCRIPT_NAME=/env
> >where under NCSA (which we are converting from)
> >the CGI script gets SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/envshow
> >(which I would argue is correct)
>
> Why should /cgi-bin/envshow be in there at all? There is no
> URL with that name based on your ScriptAlias directive.
> If you have some other directive that makes such a URL valid,
> fine, but there is no reason Apache should randomly pick
> some other path to use...
Why? It was my understanding that Apache was 'compatible'
with the old NCSA server -- and that's what it does.
the ScriptAlias causes the translation:
/env/<whatever> -=> /var/www/cgi-bin/envshow/catalog/<whatever>
then it (NCSA) separates that into:
/var/www /cgi-bin/envshow /catalog/<whatever>
<docroot> SCRIPT_NAME PATH_INFO
possibly because of <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin"> ...
John
