"RewriteMap"s inefficient (was: [Zope-dev] Apache Mod_rewrite question)

[Ganesha Shanmuganathan]

Hi Dieter,

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 13:10, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Ganesha Shanmuganathan wrote at 2004-7-15 15:57 -0500:
> > ... RewriteMap files with the same name are identified ...
> >That is strange! It looks like a bug in mod_rewrite then. I checked the
> >source and found that it does compare by map name. Thanks for your
> >feedback
> 
> But the cache is not taken from a global variable but resolved
> via a local resource.
> 
> I am not sure what this local resource is (I am no Apache expert).
> But, I expect that it is virtual host specific.

>From what I understand, it is stored as static global (as APR table with
APR mutex control for accessing by threads).

I changed it to use key,map_file_name and it works for me. I have a
writeup at http://www.izpug.org/Members/zeomega/mod_rewrite, for more
information in case you are interested.

thanks,
ganesh

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