It rather sounds to me that you have a TransHandler that needs some
polishing. The translation handler should inspect for the resolved path
being a directory. If it is a directory and the requested uri is lacking a
trailing forward slash then it needs to issue a redirect with the trailing
slash as mod_dir would have done. If the resolved path is a directory and
the uri includes the trailing forward slash, then you'll need to resolve the
index file.
It is possible, however, to run some preliminary translation on the uri --
pulling out and noting interesting things from the uri -- and then DECLINE
the request to allow Apache's translations to finish resolving the request
to a file. Here's an example of this:
package My::Apache::TransHandler;
use strict;
use Apache::Constants qw(:response);
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
# Assuming a pipe delimited list of virtual directories
# set these in httpd.conf like this:
# PerlSetVar VirtualDirectories "dir1|dir2|dir3|dir4"
my $virtual_dirs = $r->dir_config('VirtualDirectories');
if ( $r->uri =~ m!^/($virtual_dirs)$!o ) {
# virtual directory only, no trailing slash
$r->header_out( Location => $r->uri . "/" );
return REDIRECT;
}
# see if the uri contains the prefix
if ( $r->uri =~ m!^/($virtual_dirs)/(.*)!o ) {
# save the virtual path in $r->notes
$r->notes('VIRTUAL_PATH' => $1);
# reset the uri to everything following the virtual directory
# you may want to change this in some other way
$r->uri( "/$2" );
}
# if you want apache to finish resolving the uri to a file...
return DECLINED;
# otherwise, add code to resolve to the file
}
1;
NOTE: I've not tested the above code, so it could contain errors.
Regards,
Tim Tompkins
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Purcell, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:12 AM
Subject: Multiple Sites
Hello,
I have the need to create 10 web sites off my Apache web server. I do not
want to use 10 IP addresses. So I am doing to cheeze and do a
URL/directory/index.html foreach site.
Then I would give each customer a URL of URL/directory and I would like the
index.html or the default.html to come up. But it does not.
I edited my conf file to this
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
# DirectoryIndex index.html
DirectoryIndex default.htm
</IfModule>
But but it does not work. But if I put in URL/directory and a forward slash/
eg. http://URL/directory/ then it shows the default.htm page. But I know my
customers, and they will not put in the directory forward slash. How do I
get around this issue?
Thanks
Scott Purcell
