Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now there's a typical problem (i mentioned it before on this > list). Lets take kwiki.ffii.org, the most problematic (and chaotic) > one in this respect. You can request the same page by, eg, > > http://kwiki.ffii.org/EuDemocracyEn > http://kwiki.ffii.org/?EuDemocracyEn > http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi?EuDemocracyEn > > and now they even put up an alias http://wiki.ffii.org/EuDemocracyEn, > > - which sums up to at least 6 http subtrees.
This is rather pointless. They must have chosen deliberately to have six URLs for the same content, but I cannot see any good reason for it. > I note there's the 'Alias' section, so my question is, can i make it > > http://wiki.ffii.org/ = http://kwiki.ffii.org/ > http://kwiki.ffii.org/? = http://kwiki.ffii.org/ > http://kwiki.ffii.org/index.cgi? = http://kwiki.ffii.org/ > > and go on happily ? I did set it right now, but i'd appreciate some > hints before going to discover in a month or so that i did it all > wrong. The first one of these will work, but the others won't. The Alias section matching is not done on a substring of the whole URL, but is done on the protocol, hostname and path only. It is intended to allow replacement of a directory tree on one host with a directory tree on another (or the same) host. > Are the entries order sensitive, in this case ? The entries are always order sensitive. Only one entry of the same type can ever match and it is always the first. > A related question is, can i consolidate (merge) the content of the > different http subtrees (with a little shell command or script) > easily, once the alias setting works ? You can use the wwwoffle-mv command in the same way as the Alias section. But unfortunately for you it works exactly the same way as the Alias section so you won't be able to do what you want with it. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
