Concatenating production and change libraries for a web site

[billhorne at attbi.com (billhorne at attbi.com)]

Scott,

This sounds like a perfect solution, but I'll admit that recompiling Apache 
will be a learning curve for me. 

Please provide as much detail as you can about the module(s) involved, and the 
associated libraries - the machine runs RedHat 7.1 with the 2.4.18 kernel.

If anyone else on the list has done this already, I'd appreciat your help.

Thanks again.

Bill Horne
> If you use a consistent path/name scheme, you should be able to process a
> URL and always know where the "evil twin" lives (if they exist at all).
> example:
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> /pending/results.html
> /production/results.html
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> Then you'll need to modify the 404 error processor, so it does something
> like this:
> 
> Serve /new/results.html... but if the file does not exist, it triggers the
> 404. Modify the 404 error script:
>     if (REQUEST matches "pending") {
>         $retryurl = REQUEST
>         $retryurl = s/pending/production/    # OK, try production
>         GET $retryurl
>     } else{
>         #standard 404 handling
>     }
> 
> I've seen this done, and I believe it was in the 404 handler. By now there
> might be an Apache module for it, but I don't know of one.
> 
> -Scott
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
> To: "BLU Discussion List" <discuss at blu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 8:57 PM
> Subject: Concatenating production and change libraries for a web site
> 
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> > Thanks for reading this.
> >
> > I run a small web site for my son's Boy Scout troop, and I'd like to
> > set up a change control process that includes different directories for
> > "production", "pending", and "retired" web pages.
> >
> > Of course, the actual site won't have this: I'm setting it up on the
> > testbed platform, which is my home server.
> >
> > Here's what I'd like to do: I want Apache to look in the "pending"
> > directory for pages, and then in the "production" directory, so that
> > only web pages that are actually being worked on need to be in the
> > "pending" directory. Other than a whole bunch of symlinks, how can
> > I accomplish this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Bill Horne
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