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Re: [users@httpd] Backtracking inside <LocationMatch>?

André Warnier

2008-06-23

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Christopher Nagel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm setting up Django in Apache and thought it would be cool to do something like this:
>
> <LocationMatch "(/.*/).*\.py">
>   SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE $1settings.py
> </LocationMatch>
>
> Unfortunately, it's looking for $1 as a literal, not as a reference to the first regex element.
>
> Am I going too far, or am I just using the wrong syntax?
>
I think you're going too far ;-)
I don't think that the LocationMatch "memorises" the match to pass it to
another directive.

But you should have a look at mod_setenvif.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/mod/mod_setenvif.html

André

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