Apache "Include" directive with wildcards

Friday, 20 July 2012

Apache's include directive does not accept wildcards, so something like this won't be allowed:

Include /srv/www/vhosts/*/conf/vhost.conf

You can use mod_perl to realize this. Additionally, the following example does a simple permission check to ensure that the included file has not been modified by an ordinary user:

  1. <perl>
  2.     use File::stat;
  3.     foreach $file (glob '/srv/www/vhosts/*/conf/vhost.conf') {
  4.         my $stat = stat($file);
  5.         if ($stat-&gt;uid != 0 || $stat-&gt;gid != 0) {
  6.             warn "$file is not owned by root:root, skipping!\n";
  7.             next;
  8.         }
  9.         if ($stat-&gt;mode &amp; 0002) {
  10.             warn "$file is world-writable, skipping!\n";
  11.             next;
  12.         }
  13.         push @Include, $file;
  14.     }
  15. </perl>
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