[Xitami] Emulating Apache directories

[Francis Turner]

Ewen McNeill wrote:

>You are right that smthttpl.c:http_list_directory() is what is creating
>the directory (as an XML tree).  One of the things that it should also
>add to the XML is the path to the actual directory on disk, since it
>obviously needs to know this while it is preparing the list of files,
>and it would be useful to the GSL script outputting the directory.  The
>directory path is, I think, in p_http-> file_name, so adding an
>attribute with that value into the top level of the XML would be useful,
>called perhaps "path_on_disk".
>
>Ewen
>
OK so I inserted 2 lines at line 2113.

Old code
    /*  Create root XML 
item                                                 */
    root_item = xml_new (NULL, "directory", "");
   
    /*  Now transform directory listing into an XML 
tree                     */
    total_files = 0;
    total_size  = 0;

New code
    /*  Create root XML 
item                                                 */
    root_item = xml_new (NULL, "directory", "");
    /*  Output path to directory for GSL scripts */
    xml_put_attr (root_item, "physical_path", p_http-> file_name);
   
    /*  Now transform directory listing into an XML 
tree                     */
    total_files = 0;
    total_size  = 0;

This works fine and allows GSL directory scripts to search for README or 
similar.

It doesn't matter but it is important to note that you will not get the 
absoluet path of non-aliased directories, just the directory relative to 
the xitami base directory. I.e. you get webpage/images/ for the images 
directory in a default config. Since GSL doesn't seem to have a command 
to list the current working directory (e.g. /usr/local/xitami or 
/opt/xitami) you cannot infer from this variable where the xitami server 
is located on the file system. This seems to me to be excellent security 
as I can't see why you would need it but it should be noted for future 
reference.

However in testing this it seems that you cannot have an alias like 
relative = ../relative/ whereas rel = ./rel does work and the directory 
given for GSL is rel/

This could possibly be another bug?

Francis

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