On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:59 -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: > On 9/21/06, Julian C. Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone have any solutions for managing a huge number of Apache > > redirects in a manner external to Apache? What I am looking to do is to > > store Redirect source and targets in some kind of DB. It's kind of like > > RewriteMap but I don't actually want to use the key and values in future > > directives. > > > > Ideally it would be possible to instruct Apache (either implicitly or > > explicitly) to refresh its Redirect map without restarting Apache > > itself. > > Umm... This is exactly like RewriteMap. And RewriteMap does not need > a restart to be refreshed. What is it that you need that RewriteMap > doesn't provide?
Hmm... maybe I just need some guidance with the use of RewriteMap. If a looked-up key is not found in the map, what happens? Will Apache consult the DocumentRoot to see if the directory exists, will the JKMounts be consulted, etc.? I am unclear as to the order of precedence. - Julian -- -- Julian C. Dunn, P.Eng. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Platform Administrator * CBC.ca Production & Operations -- Office: 2C310-J * Tel.: (416) 205-3311 x6988 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]