Re: /usr/doc transition and other things

[Chris Lawrence <quango@watervalley.net>]

On Sep 02, Anthony Towns wrote:
> AFAIK, it's just not possible to make Apache (and other web browsers)
> make both /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc accessible at the one
> http://localhost/doc URL.

Yes, it is, using mod_rewrite.  Something like:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond /usr/doc/$1 -F
RewriteRule ^/doc/(.*) /usr/doc/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^/doc/(.*) /usr/share/doc/$1

If /usr/doc/(URL) exists, we look there, otherwise we use
/usr/share/doc/(URL) (and if that doesn't exist, we bomb with a 404
Not found)

I may have the RewriteCond flag wrong... oh well, look at the
mod_rewrite docs if it doesn't work :-).

[Cc'd to Apache maintainer]


Chris
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