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./ in pathnames

Leave a Comment / Apache, Development / By Dan Langille

Yesterday, a commit came along which made FreshPorts quite upset. To be realistic, it wasn’t upset at all. It processed everything just nicely. Just not the right way. The commit in question (201205250144.q4P1i4Hc009503@repoman.freebsd.org) contained some pathnames such as this: ./databases/qt4-sql pkg-plist ./devel/dbus-qt4 Makefile pkg-plist ./devel/qmake4 Makefile pkg-plist ./devel/qmake4/files Makefile.bsd ./devel/qt4 distinfo ./devel/qt4/files patch-configure ./devel/qt4-assistant Makefile …

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Upgrading to Apache 2.2

Leave a Comment / Apache / By Dan Langille

A few short notes about upgrading to Apache 2.2 from Apache 1.3. I did the install. Then found all websites gave this: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /commit.php on this server. The issue there was this set of standard directives in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: <Directory /> AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all </Directory> I …

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Rearranging the URL with mod_rewrite

Leave a Comment / Apache, Development / By Dan Langille

And today, for my first trick (yes, it is my first trick, but my second post today), I shall transform this URL: http://www.freshports.org/news/pan2/files.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org into http://www.freshports.org/commit.php?message_id=200605010349.k413nOGF019378@repoman.freebsd.org&category=news&port=pan2&files=yes Why? Because it is impolite to break existing URLs. It is far better to redirect them to the new improved content. Our documentation for today’s exercise shall be http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html#RewriteRule. Our …

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coppermining

Leave a Comment / Apache / By Dan Langille

I was getting a lot of these queries: [Thu Nov 9 00:40:34 2006] [error] [client 72.36.202.166] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php [Thu Nov 9 00:40:34 2006] [error] [client 204.157.11.250] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php [Thu Nov 9 00:40:36 2006] [error] [client 213.148.16.7] File does not exist: /www/freshports.org/modules/coppermine/themes/coppercop/theme.php [Thu Nov 9 00:40:37 2006] [error] [client 72.29.68.123] …

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