Hi,
Sorry to be late.
The disk of modruby.net was crached:-(
# But the subversion repository is alive:-)
David Garamond wrote:
> The problem is, for security reasons, we do not want to allow access to
> mod_ruby from .htaccess, as the webserver is shared and normal hosting
> users are allowed to use .htaccess.
>
> I remember a while back suggesting something like "PerlMode normal" /
> "PerlMode adminonly" directive to the mod_perl mailing list, where in
> the "PerlMode adminonly" mode we deny all Perl* directives in .htaccess.
> Unfortunately, I didn't get any reply. But I'm sure there are many
> server admins like myself who would like the ability to write Apache
> modules in Ruby/Perl but without having to give access to Ruby/Perl
> interpreter to normal users.
>
> The patch to do the above is simple, but I ended up doing the simpler
> thing (modifying the directives definition in mod_perl.c from OR_ALL to
> RSRC_CONF).
>
> Now what about mod_ruby? Is there any interest to do like the above? I
> believe this will increase the usefulness of mod_ruby, especially for
> people in my situation (shared hosting).
The concept is good, but the name RubyMode sounds too generic for me.
Can you suggest other names?
Shugo