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Modified: htdocs/manual/misc rewriteguide.html Log: Update old net.sw entry to avoid confusion by the reader. Revision Changes Path 1.4 +5 -6 apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html Index: rewriteguide.html =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/apache-1.3/htdocs/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -r1.3 -r1.4 --- rewriteguide.html 2000/02/10 16:35:48 1.3 +++ rewriteguide.html 2000/02/10 16:38:57 1.4 @@ -354,14 +354,13 @@ drwxrwxr-x 10 netsw users 512 Jul 9 14:08 X11/ </PRE><P> -In July 1996 I decided to make this 350 MB archive public to the world via a -nice Web interface (<A HREF="http://net.sw.engelschall.com/net.sw/";><CODE> -http://net.sw.engelschall.com/net.sw/</CODE></a>). "Nice" means that I wanted to -offer a interface where you can browse directly through the archive hierarchy. +In July 1996 I decided to make this archive public to the world via a +nice Web interface. "Nice" means that I wanted to +offer an interface where you can browse directly through the archive hierarchy. And "nice" means that I didn't wanted to change anything inside this hierarchy - not even by putting some CGI scripts at the top of it. Why? Because the above structure should be later accessible via FTP as well, and I didn't -want any Web or CGI stuuf to be there. +want any Web or CGI stuff to be there. <P> <DT><STRONG>Solution:</STRONG> @@ -390,7 +389,7 @@ real <STRONG><EM>net.sw</EM></STRONG> stuff and gets automatically updated via <CODE>rdist</CODE> from time to time. - The second part of the problem remains: how to link these two structures +The second part of the problem remains: how to link these two structures together into one smooth-looking URL tree? We want to hide the <CODE>DATA/</CODE> directory from the user while running the appropriate CGI scripts for the various URLs.
