Re: Rules file for CERN server question

luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)

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> I am using CERN's WWW server on a VMS 5.5-2 system with MULTINET 3.2C.
> I am trying to serve documents located in different directories (and disks)
> but I have not been able to figure out the exact syntax for my rules file.
> Or, maybe, what I am trying to do cannot be done.
> Here is the rules file I am using. I have no problem http serving docs under
> the /www/* directory tree. Anything outside this tree, is not getting served.
> 
> # httpd.conf
> # Rules file for my WWW server
> pass	/		file:/diska/www/welcome.html
> pass	/*		file:/diska/www/*
> map     /ftp/*		file:/diska/www/ftp/*   
> map	/star/*		file:/diskb/star/*
> map	/opal/*		file:/diskc/opal/*
> pass	file:/diska/www/ftp/*	<-- this works ok
> pass	file:/diskb/star/*	<-- does not work
> pass	file:/diskc/opal/*	<-- does not work
> fail	*
> htbin	/diska/www/htbin

Rules are translated from top to bottom; first matching Pass, Fail, Exec
or HTBin [HTBin is an obsolite form of Exec, but VMS version doesn't have
Exec yet] will terminate rule translations.

In your case you have

	pass /* file:/diska/www/*

which will map _everything_ to diska, and pass it, so further rules
are never reached.

Your config file should read:

# httpd.conf
# Rules file for my WWW server
htbin	/diska/www/htbin
pass	/		file:/diska/www/welcome.html
pass	/ftp/*		file:/diska/www/ftp/*   
pass	/star/*		file:/diskb/star/*
pass	/opal/*		file:/diskc/opal/*
pass	/*		file:/diska/www/*
fail	*

It's important to have pass /* ... as the last one.

Cheers,
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Ari Luotonen		 |
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