[Xitami] BUG - uppercase subdirs of an Alias - potenial NULL pointer assignemnt

[Francis Turner]

Francis Turner wrote:

> Just found a lovely bug.
>
> I have (for test purposes!) within my defaults.cfg an alias line
> usrlocal = "/usr/local"
>
> (Xitami is installed and runing in /usr/local/xitami-25b5)
>
> I also have a subdirectory from /usr/local/xitami-25b5/webpages called 
> UPPERCASE
>
> http://computer/UPPERCASE/ works and returns the directory contents
> http://computer/usrlocal/xitami-25b5/webpages/ works and gives the 
> home page
> http://computer/usrlocal/xitami-25b5/webpages/UPPERCASE/ gives a 404
>
Forgot to mention the workaround : Add a link by "ln -s path alias" in 
the webpages directory.

Note this could lead to infitte recursion down directory trees if not 
careful and it does so in the toy example I just used above

Francis

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