Re: Apache AliasMatch

You know, I think, that I may tend to ramble in these posts, doing my thinking as I type. I know I said elsewhere in that post, that the caret means whatever comes right after the hostname and port - mea culpa if I caused any confusion by my idle thoughts!!

Your examples are helpful, of course, and much appreciated.

Cheers
Vern

On 3/2/2011 6:55 PM, Scott Klement wrote:

On 3/2/2011 5:53 PM, Vern Hamberg wrote:

(Maybe the caret is superfluous - I've seen an example of Alias that, of
course, would not have the caret, and that has me wondering.)

Superfluous? With the caret, this will match:

http://host:port/imageserver/whateverelse

Without the caret that'll _still_ match. Maybe that's why you think it's
superfluous?

However, without the caret, this would _also_ match (with the caret, it
won't):

http://host:port/foo/bar/imageserver/whateverelse

The caret means "at the start". Without the caret, it doesn't matter
where "/imageserver/" appears in the URL... it doesn't have to be at
the beginning, because Vern didn't use a caret.

Whether that makes the caret "superfluous" depends on what other URLs
the site uses, I guess.

The URL for the above could be

http://ourIPaddress:port/imageserver/vernspgm?name=vern&date=11/22/2009

Gosh, I hope you aren't really doing HTTP by IP address. Yuck, spit,
blech.