AliasMatch and windows drive letters, directory-path escaping
Hi, have an apache 2.2.9 under a winxp.
I've tried to trasform incoming url with AliasMatch.
My documentroot is set to n:/htdocs. I need to translate for example
http://myserver.mydomain/new/pages/something
to
http://myserver.mydomain/new/page.php?pageid=something
I wrote this simple AliasMatch rule:
AliasMatch (.*)pages/(.+) "n:/htdocs/new/page.php?pageid=$2"
(I know that this regex matches eg. [
myserver.mydomain...] as well but it is doesn't matter now, it's just a try.)
I went to this addres with my browser:
http://myserver.mydomain/new/pages/something
and I got:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access /new/pages/something on this server.
and an error message appeared in apache log:
[Wed Sep 14 17:37:59 2011] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (20025)The given path contained wildcard characters: access to /new/pages/something failed
Ups, wildcard? Where? The colon was suspicious, I removed the drive letter:
AliasMatch (.*)pages/(.+) "/htdocs/new/page.php?pageid=$2"
The strange "wildcard" log message gone away. While browser displayed the "Forbidden" screen again, I got another message in the log:
[Wed Sep 14 18:31:28 2011] [error] [client x.x.x.x] client denied by server configuration: C:/htdocs
That's correct, apache.exe sits on c: so the path is based on c: and c:\htdocs is not configured in any <directory> directive (and is not an existing directory), so it is forbidden.
The colon gets more suspicious. But I cannot find any answer: is the colon char is a meta-char in directory-path part of AliasMatch? How to escape it? Backslash is not working for that.
Escaping is a general question looking at the directory-path part of AliasMatch, because the backreference is legal directory name (at least under windows).
Suppose I have this directory
c:/dir/$1
and I need to do something like this:
Eg.
AliasMatch (.*)pages/(.+) /dir/$1/$2
where the $1 is the directory and should be escaped, and the $2 is the backreference.
The doc of mod_alias says nothing about it.
?
Thanks in advance,
qm
