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Wayne--

If you're not satisfied with your current VM Webserver vendor, then please
give Beyond Software a call. We'd be more than happy to talk to you, and
even to hook you up with customers of ours for whom we've coded server
enhancements.

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/Mike Lude
Beyond Software Inc.

At 03:47 PM 04/29/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>I put in an enhancement request for this to a vendor once but it got
>rejected. They read things into my request that I didn't think were there
>and claimed it would be a security issue.
>
>I'm assuming that if a user specifies directory a, and it's mapped to
>directory b, you would merely want the server to act as if the user types in
>directory b.  That's all I want.
>
>I was once told by somebody in charge of one of the commercial web servers
>that it would seem like a simple thing to do.  Unfortunately, that person is
>no longer there.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Wayne T. Smith [mailto:wts@MAINE.EDU]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 1:20 PM
>> To: WWW-VM@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>> Subject: Do any VM web servers do local mapping?
>>
>>
>> By "local mapping", I mean the web server has control information that
>> makes one directory structure look like it's attached at some point in
>> another.  It would seem relatively easy to do, but I haven't
>> seen it (in
>> the VM products).
>>
>> For example, having a tilde in important addresses (a campus, a
>> department, etc.) is unacceptable.  To provide the best foot
>> forward, a
>> web server should be able to be set up so that we can provide
>>
>>    http://domain/department/otherstuff
>>
>> where the "directory" department is virtualized and actually
>> served not
>> from the web servers root domain, but from someplace else, such as
>> joeuser.vmwebserver or joeuser.webshare
>>
>> Other servers allow this, why not VM-based servers?
>>
>> The gain is that I can give JOEUSER an SFS filespace and SFS will
>> monitor his occupancy.  He can FTP into it with (some) web editors and
>> FTP clients.  If I allow him to use a subdirectory of my web server, I
>> have no control over how much he stores there AND he can't create and
>> delete subdirectories without my doing it for him!
>>
>> At least for my situation, BFS cannot yet be part of the
>> solution nor do
>> I wish an SFS ESM.
>>
>> Syntactically, this would seem easy.  For example, with DIRMAP files,
>> one can specify a virtual directory with an entry
>>
>>    dir department somename
>>
>> and the files in logical directory "department" are served
>> according to
>> the information in "somename dirmap" in the same directory.  A simple
>> extension might allow
>>
>>    dir department vmsysu:joeuser.vmwebserver
>>
>> Now, the files in the virtual directory "department" will be processed
>> from the specified SFS directory.
>>
>> Before I ask my vendor (again), does any VM web server
>> support something
>> like this?
>>
>> Would this facility be useful to you if it were in your VM web server?
>>
>> Thanks for reading, wayne
>>
>> Wayne T. Smith              Systems Group -- UNET Technology Services
>> wts@Maine.edu               University of Maine System
>>
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