--On Monday, June 2, 2003 11:23 AM +1000 Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
it should honour this configuration and not ignore it, issuing a redirect, despite the existence of DocumentRoot/foo/dirname. This is how it worked in Apache-1.3 and appears to be broken in Apache-2.0.
Apache 1.3 gives precedent to directories over locations. I'm not clear how you reached that conclusion, but I just tested it on 1.3 (and 2.0), and in the presence of a collision, the directory is returned not the location.
What you might be suspicious of is that 2.0 may invoke the handler associated with the location and not the default handler. In 1.3, mod_mime would not run the SetHandler line if it was a directory - see mod_mime.c:626. However, in 2.0, the SetHandler enforcement was taken out of mod_mime and placed in core_override_type in core.c:3222 which *does* act upon a directory. Therefore, under 2.0, the SetHandler line is enacted, where in 1.3, it was not.
I think the proper thing may be to have core_override_type follow the 1.3 semantics and punt on a directory. But, I'm not sure. Thoughts?
I did some more digging and tracing and the problem seems to be as follows:
in apache 1.3 mod_dir was a running as a response handler, allowing other response handlers to be inserted before it and thus override it. For example mod_perl was registering itself to handle DIR_MAGIC_TYPE and was overriding mod_dir if there was r->handler set to "perl-script".
in httpd 2.0, mod_dir is running as a fixup handler. So if a module wants to override the behavior as in 1.3 it can't to do that. Moreover fixups are RUN_ALL, so it won't be very helpful to even insert an earlier handler it this phase.
The only workaround so far is to shortcut the trans handler (or could shortcut mod_mime's typemap as well), but that's ugly and inconsistent with apache 1.3.
PerlModule Apache::RequestRec
PerlTransHandler \
'sub {shift->uri eq "/hello-world" ? Apache::OK : Apache::DECLINED }'
<Location /hello-world>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlResponseHandler Apache::HelloWorld
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