On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > There were some rumors, that Apache would be able to handle both > > directories as http://localhost/doc/ (use /usr/share/doc/<foo> and > > if the file/directory isn't available fall back to > > /usr/doc/<foo>), but I don't know enough about Apache to realize > > this myself and I didn't see an example how to do this, so it > > seems to be only a rumor but not reality :-(
> Have you tried the mod_rewrite solution posted late in July? It seems that I missed this. But I found it in the archive and it works really great now. Maybe others have the same problem, so here's the solution again (with /usr/doc as the primary directory and /usr/share/doc the secondary, which I prefer): In httpd.conf: LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so In srm.conf: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on # For requested files beginning with /doc/, try looking for the # document in /usr/doc. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/doc/ RewriteCond /usr%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond /usr%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR] RewriteCond /usr%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l RewriteRule ^(.+) /usr$1 [L] # Next, try looking for the document in /usr/share/doc. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/doc/ RewriteCond /usr/share%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond /usr/share%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR] RewriteCond /usr/share%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l RewriteRule ^(.+) /usr/share$1 [L] # Attempt to deal with directory listings. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} ^/doc/?$ # Just list /usr/doc for now. RewriteRule ^(.+) /usr/doc/ [L] # Neither worked. Just pass through to do whatever we would have # done before. RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT] </IfModule> <IfModule !mod_rewrite.c> # mod_rewrite isn't available, so fallback to a simple Alias. Alias /doc/ /usr/doc/ </IfModule> Maybe this should be added to the defaults of apacheconfig (/usr/share/doc/apache/examples/*)? Ciao Roland -- * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.spinnaker.de/ * PGP: 1024/DD08DD6D 2D E7 CC DE D5 8D 78 BE 3C A0 A4 F1 4B 09 CE AF