[thelist] Apache - alternative paths
Mark Howells
webdev at mountain.ch
Thu Dec 14 11:25:49 CST 2006
> In your case, maybe you would load an array from config or db
> containing
> the default fallback locations and if the request matches one of these
> serve that up, and if not give an actual 404 response.
Thanks, Anthony and Max. This is a good idea, but the implementation
would require that this script would be called so many times, that it
may not be feasible. Esssentially, we'd call this script for every
image, SWF, Javascript and CSS file served by 50 projects. We're
intending that only straight page requests would be served directly
from the called path.
An example: we have image paths - /i/icon/logo.gif - which the same
across multiple projects, each with their own domain. If the project
doesn't have it's own, bespoke image in the images folder associated
directly with the project, then the default image should be served
from a main master project folder. An average page has four
Javascripts, five to ten images and four CSS files, so we're talking
about possibly calling this script from between 15 and 20 times per
page request. Bearing in mind that we're currently experiencing a
throughput of 500,000 requests per day, that would be a pretty heavy
load for such a script.
What we were hoping for would be an Apache directive, rather than an
external script.
Mark Howells
www.permanenttourist.ch
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