Well we learned a lot from Nginx, starting to incorporate some, but hoping for feedback before i do most of that, instead worked on improving the location sorter and checking that locations paths are valid, close but not quite done

srcs/config/LocationConfig.hpp

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 # include <vector>
 # include <string>
 # include <iostream>
+# include <sys/stat.h>	// stat()
+
+# include <stdio.h>		// printf(), gotta go
+
 
 # include "utils.hpp"
 
@@ -99,6 +103,38 @@ public:
 		if (rhs.path[rhs.path.find_last_of("/") + 1] != '\0')
 			++comp_rhs; 
 
+		// ok now we need to add a thing where we check for files vs folders
+		if (comp_lhs == comp_rhs)
+		{
+			std::cout << "locations are equal\n";
+			std::string	tmp_path_lhs = root + path;
+			std::cout << "root + path: " << tmp_path_lhs << '\n';
+
+		//	const char *c_path_lhs = (root + path).substr(1).c_str();
+// could the problem be that i'm in the .hpp ?
+			const char *c_path_lhs = tmp_path_lhs.substr(1).c_str();
+			const char *c_path_rhs = (rhs.root + rhs.path).substr(1).c_str();
+
+			printf("lhs path: %s\n", c_path_lhs);
+			printf("rhs path: %s\n", c_path_rhs);
+
+			struct stat sl;
+			struct stat	sr;
+
+			if (stat(c_path_lhs, &sl) == 0 && S_ISREG(sl.st_mode))
+			{
+				std::cout << "lhs is a file\n";
+				--comp_lhs;
+			}
+			if (stat(c_path_rhs, &sr) == 0 && S_ISREG(sr.st_mode))
+			{
+				std::cout << "rhs is a file\n";
+				--comp_rhs;
+			}
+			// do i need to free c_path's ???
+		}
+
+
 		std::cout << "comp_lhs: " << comp_lhs << " comp_rhs: " << comp_rhs \
 			<< " bool res: " << (comp_lhs > comp_rhs) << "\n";
 	// i honestly can't tell you how or why but using > rather than <