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Date: 5 Feb 1999 17:11:20 -0000
From: Ben Hill <ben@opnsys.com>
Reply-To: ben@opnsys.com
To: apbugs@hyperreal.org
Subject: Unable to process <Directory> and <Location> tags
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>Number:         3844
>Category:       os-aix
>Synopsis:       Unable to process <Directory> and <Location> tags
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb  5 09:20:00 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Fri Feb  5 09:26:26 PST 1999
>Originator:     ben@opnsys.com
>Organization:
>Release:        1.3.4
>Environment:
AIX homemart 3 4 00FFFFFF4C00
AIX 4.3.1
Compiler: CSet 3.6.4 using xlC
>Description:
Apache fails to start if there are any <Directory> or <Location> tags in any
config file, including the default httpd.conf
error message:
Expected </Directory> but saw </Directory>
or
Expected </Location> but saw </Location>

The pointer compare in the function in the http_core.c: end_nested_section
always fails.

Compiler:
CSet 3.6.4 using xlC with no addition options but what configuration script used
>How-To-Repeat:
It occurs at startup
>Fix:
Yes, I made a change to:

http_core.c:
function: static const char *end_nested_section(cmd_parms *cmd, void *dummy)
change: 
     > if (cmd->cmd->name != cmd->end_token) {
     < if( strcmp(cmd->cmd->name, cmd->end_token) != 0) {
this fixed the problem.
I sure you can a more effiecient way ;-)

>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: marc
State-Changed-When: Fri Feb  5 09:26:26 PST 1999
State-Changed-Why:
This is already detailed in previous bug reports, and the
BUILD.NOTES file.  It is a bug in your compiler, please
search for previous reports or look at the BUILD.NOTES
for details.

In the future, please be sure that you do not submit a bug
report without searching for previous reports of the same
bug.
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