On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:26 PM, sawyer x <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Brian E. Lozier <brian@massassi.com> wrote:
I think I understand what you're saying but I think you're misunderstanding the problem.  The problem is that he wants to mount TWO apps under different directories:

Indeed perhaps I'm misunderstanding.

/prefix1/
/prefix2/

But each of these apps are requesting images like /images/image1.png, and the images overlap.  He wants requests coming from /prefix1/ to service /prefix1/images/image1.png and requests from /prefix2/ to service /prefix2/images/image1.png even though there's no way to tell the server which "prefix" he's under given a request for /images/image1.png.

The solution would still be the same though. It's a server configuration problem.
Put the public directory outside the applications, set up the aliases to the same directory.
"Badaboom", as it were in The Fifth Element. :)


"Put an alias from "/myapp/images" to "/public/images""

Except that his HTML is coded such that requests for images are going to /images/ (please note the beginning "/" -- all requests are going to the root of the server) not /myapp/images/, so making an alias at /myapp/images/ to /something_else/images/ won't help.

He's trying to use the same URL (http://myserver.com/images/foo.png) to serve different content based on whether it was requested from an html page at /prefix1/ or /prefix2/ -- the only way to do this would be for the request for the image to look at something like the referrer and serve the "right" image.  Or modify his app to request different URLs and then there is no problem.