Tony Finch wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 11:14:44AM -0500, Nomentsoa-Tahiry Ramanampanoharana wrote:
Instead of writing a new module from the scratch. I don't
know if it's a good idea to look at mod_rewrite RewriteMap
internal function first.
I recommend against using mod_rewrite wherever possible. Yes it is
essential in some situations, but frequently you will be better off with
mod_alias and therefore much less hair. Everything that mod_vhost_alias
does can be done with mod_rewrite, but enabling mod_rewrite and therefore
letting customers use it is a scary prospect. With great power comes
great responsibility, and users are far too frequently irresponsible.
Tony.
I was looking at the code, and I think we could acheive alot if we replaced the
calls
to the vhost-parsing code on
http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/server/protocol.c#L980 &
http://lxr.webperf.org/source.cgi/server/connection.c#L203
with 2 hooks. this would give the added benefit of moving the name-based virtual
hosting
into modules/http where it belongs.
we would still have a problem creating the server configs on the fly, but that is a
smaller problem
which the module writer could attempt.
