** Using WeBWorK **

#AliasMatch $webwork_courses_url/([^/]*)/(.*) $webwork_courses_dir/$1/html/$2
#<Directory $webwork_courses_dir/*/html>
#       Options FollowSymLinks
#       AllowOverride None
#</Directory>

Alias /webwork2_course_files/Course_Name_1 /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name_1/html
Alias /webwork2_course_files/Course_Name_2 /opt/webwork2/courses/Course_Name_2/html
<Directory /opt/webwork2/courses/*/html>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
</Directory>

It seems to work. If someone narrows down the problem and finds a better solution, I would love to implement it.

Blake

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Glad to see you found a workaround. Am I to understand that AliasMatch fails anywhere in your Apache configuration, not just in a <Perl> section in webwork.apache-config?

Can you give me an example of an AliasMatch directive that fails in httpd.conf? Remember that dollar-signs have to be escaped with a backslash on this discussion board.

In fact, escaping of dollar signs could be tripping you up. Inside a double-quoted string in a <Perl> section in webwork.apache-config, the AliasMatch directive should look like this:

AliasMatch $webwork_courses_url/([^/]*)/(.*) $webwork_courses_dir/\$1/html/\$2

Each dollar-sign should be escaped with one backslash. (On this discussion board, I type two backslashes, and it displays one.)

But outside of a double-quoted string and outside of a <Perl> section, in httpd.conf, the AliasMatch directive should look like this:

AliasMatch /webwork2_course_files/([^/]*)/(.*) /opt/webwork2/courses/$1/html/$2

That is, the dollar-signs are not escaped with any backslashes. (On this discussion board, I type one backslash, and it displays zero.)

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Me too!!!

Am I to understand that AliasMatch fails anywhere in your Apache configuration, not just in a <Perl> section in webwork.apache-config?

Yes, that is what we found. We attempted essentially copying the AliasMatch directive in httpd.conf and it didn't work. I am not sure I understood the backslash dollarsign 1 (\$1), but we tried it both with the backslash and without and it didn't work.

Can you give me an example of an AliasMatch directive that fails in httpd.conf?

If it would be useful, I can show you the apache error logs and such. But they were exactly the same as if the AliasMatch was in the webwork.apache-config file. I don't know exactly how things are set up, but this led me to believe that this was an apache problem and not a webwork problem.

Blake

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