From: jm <jm@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T12:03:54+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby used to mimic rewrite

This has got me as far as having one possible solution. It's not 
exactly what I was after as I would have been able to indicate any 
arbitrary directory instead of just tweaking the uri.  This limits it 
to being under document root unless anyone can think of a simple way 
for this arbitrary method would working this uri rewrite will do. Time 
to run out the door again. Thanks.

J.

On 09/08/2004, at 11:36 PM, Kirk Haines wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:53:50 +0900, jm wrote
>  > The scenario is the need to rewrite a request for dummy.example.com
>  > to another directory. The reasoning behind this is a quirk in our
> > current set up so we can map algorithmically map and it would
> > involve too many rewrite rules to handle manually. The problem is
> > that this seems to be working to the point of modifying the filename,
>  >� but apache returns 403 to the browser and logs
>
> I just woke up and my head hurts and I'm operating off the top of my 
> head,
> here, to take this for what it's worth (LOL) but I believe what you 
> want to
> do here is to use mod_ruby to write a translation handler so that your 
> code
>  can give Apache a different address to use during the address 
> translation
> phase.� The mod_ruby directive is
>
> RubyTransHandler CLASSNAME
>
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Kirk Haines
>
>