On 12/13/2010 4:35 AM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2010, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:15, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe- > clan.net> wrote: >>> On 12/12/2010 4:23 PM, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >>>> On Wednesday 10 November 2010, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >>>>>> The frequency with which this gets asked seems to make it >>>>>> worthwhile doing something, even if this patch isn't the right >>>>>> thing to do. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe the larger solution of having a document_root field in >>>>> the request_rec would be better. Has anyone had a chance to >>>>> look at Ondrej's patch, already? I didn't get around to doing >>>>> it, yet. >>>>> >>>>> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49705 >>>> >>>> I have looked at the patch and it looks reasonable. The fact >>>> that two known modules (mod_vhost_ldap and mod_ftp) copy the >>>> whole server_rec just to change the document root means that >>>> this feature is needed. >>>> >>>> Well, at least for mod_ftp it is... >>>> >>>> I am wondering if the people who want this for mod_vhost_* >>>> actually want something else, namely an easy way to get the >>>> root dir of a web application in php/cgi/whatever... >>>> >>>> What about this idea: >>>> >>>> Add two new cgi env variables: CONTEXT_ROOT and >>>> CONTEXT_ROOT_PATH (or APP_ROOT/APP_ROOT_PATH or ...). And add a >>>> new config directive >>> >>> Feh... DOCUMENT_ROOT was bad enough, do we have to persist the >>> concept of sharing such things with the app? For that matter, >>> what are the vars that are used in app doc models today, why >>> would we have to invent this again? > > These things are handled nicely in the JEE world by AJP and the > servlet container. They don't seem to work all that well in the > CGI-/PHP-world.
So before inventing semantics, pointers to the Servlet semantics and/or the ASP.NET semantics would be appropriate, and discuss an established model and naming conventions you've already identified as working nicely. No?
