Re: Namespace issues

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 21:01, Martin Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 2002 10:56:45 +0200, Kristian Koehntopp wrote: > > >1. Image namespace issues/URL namespace issues > > > > "For the admin/application developer: > > PEAR reserves the right to use the /internal-pear branch in > > your webservers URL namespace tree. Your application must > > not use URLs starting with /internal-pear for its own > > purposes. > > > > For PEAR developers: > > Any PEAR class that needs URLs may use names below the > > /internal-pear/<classname>/ branch in a webservers URL > > namespace tree." > > I don't how this can be realized in a multi-hosting environment: > The PEAR installer needs to copy the files to some place > during installation. How will the different virtual hosts be > able to access this files later? > > The administrators would need to create symbolic links > in the vhost configuration like > > <VirtualHost 192.168.0.10> > ServerName foo.bar.com > DocumentRoot "/var/www/foo.bar.com/htdocs" > > Alias /internal-pear "/usr/local/lib/php/data" > </VirtualHost> > > which a lot of mass hosting providers will surely not do. Do you > have an idea on how to solve this? Let the PEAR installer handle it, and update what needs updating. - Stig