On 27 Jan 2014, at 12:11 AM, GRAHAM LEGGETT <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:
> A look at mod_alias shows it has 7 directives:
>
> • Alias
> • AliasMatch
> • Redirect
> • RedirectMatch
> • RedirectPermanent
> • RedirectTemp
> • ScriptAlias
> • ScriptAliasMatch
>
> In theory we only need these three:
>
> • Alias
> • Redirect
> • ScriptAlias
>
> What I'm keen to do is enable expression support and deprecate all but the
> above, with the following as the preferred configuration method (same as the
> one used by ProxyPass):
>
> <Location /foo>
> Alias /var/lib/bar
> …stuff...
> </Location>
>
> or
>
> <LocationMatch ^/foo/(?<bar>[^/]+)>
> Alias /var/lib/%{env:MATCH_BAR}/baz
> …stuff...
> </LocationMatch>
>
> In theory this would be faster as we would not be scanning the list of
> Aliases followed by the list of Locations each time, and things get a lot
> simpler to use.
This patch implements the above.
The idea is that the existing syntaxes remain unaltered (and can be deprecated
in future), while we introduce new Location syntaxes with a single argument,
like so:
<Location /image>
Alias /ftp/pub/image
</Location>
<LocationMatch /error/(?<NUMBER>[0-9]+)>
Alias /usr/local/apache/errors/%{env:MATCH_NUMBER}.html
</LocationMatch>
<Location /one>
Redirect permanent http://example.com/two
</Location>
<Location /three>
Redirect 303 http://example.com/other
</Location>
<LocationMatch /error/(?<NUMBER>[0-9]+)>
Redirect permanent http://example.com/errors/%{env:MATCH_NUMBER}.html
</LocationMatch>
<Location /cgi-bin >
ScriptAlias /web/cgi-bin/
</Location>
<LocationMatch /cgi-bin/errors/(?<NUMBER>[0-9]+)>
ScriptAlias /web/cgi-bin/errors/%{env:MATCH_NUMBER}.cgi
</LocationMatch>
Big win: three fewer reasons to use mod_rewrite (and maybe mod_vhost_alias).
Regards,
Graham
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