Re: Apache AliasMatch

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Kevin,

On 3/2/2011 11:51 AM, Kevin Turner wrote:
> ScriptAliasMatch ^/jonspgm$ /QSYS.LIB/JONS.LIB/JONSPGM.PGM
> Or
> ScriptAliasMatch (^/jonspgm$) /QSYS.LIB/JONS.LIB/$1.PGM

I'm not sure if it matters, but being the perfectionist that I am... 
Seems to me that your second example will repeat the / character.  The 
leading slash in /jonspgm will be copied to the result, thus translating 
from to /QSYS.LIB/JONS.LIB//jonspgm.PGM

A solution would be to change the parenthesis so they don't include the 
slash, like this:

ScriptAliasMatch ^/(jonspgm)$ /QSYS.LIB/JONS.LIB/$1.PGM

Or perhaps (uglier):

ScriptAliasMatch (^/jonspgm$) /QSYS.LIB/JONS.LIB$1.PGM

But, since "jonspgm" is hard-coded, I'm not sure that there's any 
benefit to using a $1 in the syntax at all.... that brings us back to 
your first syntax (which is exactly what I'd use.)