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Re: Need help adding symlink-like capability to Apache on NT

From: Bret McMillan <bmcmillan(at)es-inc.com>
Date: Tue Jan 05 1999 - 14:07:49 EST

You have a valid concern... let me explain a bit more. Right now, shortcuts are used in place of symlinks. If you had a "foo" symlink on the linux version, on the nt version it is represented by "foo.lnk". These shortcut files are created at install time.

Assume foo.lnk exists in your httpdoc directory. Assume foo.lnk links to C:\Bret\, in which HelloWord.html exists.

What I want to happen is for a url request of "http://www.server.com/foo/HelloWorld.html" displays the contents of HelloWorld.html.

We have an executable program that will do this:

Commandline: "slink foo/HelloWorld.html" Cout's: "/bret/HelloWorld.html"

So that part is essentially done. What we're trying to figure out is where to integrate that into apache's code.

Thanks for any and all info,

Bret

Do you need help?

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jones, FCCJ Webmaster <webmaster@fccj.org> To: apache-docs@apache.org <apache-docs@apache.org> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Need help adding symlink-like capability to Apache on NT

>Bret McMillan wrote:
to
>> do is, given a url that may contain "symlinks", we need to internally
>> resolve that name into a full NT path so that apache works with the
correct
>> file/directory. We have the code for this, but we aren't quite sure what
>> entry points in the code to work with (started looking at the source
today).
>> Can anyone provide some hints?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bret McMillan
>
>
>So, basically, you are saying that everything 'outside' of the
Received on Tue Jan 05 19:06:15 1999

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