The find-pathinfo-forward parameter used in obj.conf can help improve performance. It is used with the PathCheck function find-pathinfo and the NameTrans functions pfx2dir and assign-name. The find-pathinfo-forward parameter instructs the server to search forward for PATH_INFO in the path after ntrans-base, instead of backward from the end of the path in the server function find-pathinfo. The find-pathinfo-forward parameter is not supported within the Admin GUI. So, users need to manually edit the corresponding obj.conf file and upload the changes to the admin config repository.
The server ignores the find-pathinfo-forward parameter if the ntrans-base parameter is not set in rq->vars when the server function find-pathinfo is called. By default, ntrans-base is set.
Example
NameTrans fn="pfx2dir" find-pathinfo-forward="" from="/cgi-bin" dir="/export/home/cgi-bin" name="cgi" NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="/perf" find-pathinfo-forward="" name="perf"
This feature can improve performance for certain URLs by doing fewer stats in the server function find-pathinfo. On the Windows platform, you can also use this feature to prevent the server from changing "\\" to "/" when using the PathCheck server function find-pathinfo.
For more information about obj.conf, see the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Update 4 Administrator’s Configuration File Reference.