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

I'm looking at http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/#ToC4 right now, at the bottom for an external rewriting engine...

wouldn't this take "http://www.server.com/foo/HelloWorld.html" and then just basically ask apache to find a document "http://www.server.com/..\..\[as many as needed to get to root dir]/bret/HelloWorld.html" ? Wouldn't that open a large security hole?

Bret

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
To: apache-docs@apache.org <apache-docs@apache.org> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: Need help adding symlink-like capability to Apache on NT

>Read the docs for mod_rewrite. If you really want to invoke an external
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
Received on Tue Jan 05 19:37:42 1999