Re: WC on Linux question

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 40334
interpreted = N
texte = dale wrote:> John, > > I like your idea, however the folders that will be created will be publicly > accessible folders of the form > > www.domain.com/users/nickname/ > > I would imagine creating folders like you recommend would then cause > problems getting apache to properly recognize them. Not at all; Apache can handle much deeper links than that in a heartbeat. Just display the link on the page as http://nickname.domain.comwhere the actual href is http://www.domain.com/users/n/i/nickname/Actually, you can probably use mod.rewrite to do that for you; this would be the most elegant methodology, but hardly the simplest. > > I guess I could use your suggestion and wildcard the domain in DNS so I > could end up using http://nickname.domain.com/ instead. That would probably > be easier to configure, but I am not sure. Sure, if you want to be editing your nickname.conf file and restarting Apache everytime you make a change.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
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  3. Re: WC on Linux question (John Peacock 2001)
  4. Re: WC on Linux question (dale 2001)
  5. Re: WC on Linux question (John Peacock 2001)
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  7. Re: WC on Linux question (Jeroen de Wijn 2001)
  8. WC on Linux question (dale 2001)
dale wrote:> John, > > I like your idea, however the folders that will be created will be publicly > accessible folders of the form > > www.domain.com/users/nickname/ > > I would imagine creating folders like you recommend would then cause > problems getting apache to properly recognize them. Not at all; Apache can handle much deeper links than that in a heartbeat. Just display the link on the page as http://nickname.domain.comwhere the actual href is http://www.domain.com/users/n/i/nickname/Actually, you can probably use mod.rewrite to do that for you; this would be the most elegant methodology, but hardly the simplest. > > I guess I could use your suggestion and wildcard the domain in DNS so I > could end up using http://nickname.domain.com/ instead. That would probably > be easier to configure, but I am not sure. Sure, if you want to be editing your nickname.conf file and restarting Apache everytime you make a change.John-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747 ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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