mod_rewrite/7824: dbm lookups fail silently (txt works ok)

[Michael Paesold <mi...@sein.at>]

>Number:         7824
>Category:       mod_rewrite
>Synopsis:       dbm lookups fail silently (txt works ok)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 05 11:10:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     michael.paesold@sein.at
>Release:        1.3.20
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Redhat 7.0, glibc-2.2
gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)
Linux * 2.2.16-22smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 22 16:39:21 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
>Description:
apache is compiled with
EXTRA_LIBS=-lgdbm, EXTRA_INCLUDES=-I/usr/include/gdbm
to get mod_rewrite compiled correctly with dbm support.

i used makemap and the .db generation perl script from the server docs (mod_rewrite) to generate the db files. both produce the same.

the use of dbm fails with this output into the rewrite log:
[*/sid#812965c][rid#813fcdc/initial] (6) cache lookup FAILED, forcing new map lookup
[*/sid#812965c][rid#813fcdc/initial] (5) map lookup FAILED: map=vhost[dbm] key=www.example.com
[*/sid#812965c][rid#813fcdc/initial] (4) RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^/(.*)$' => not-matched

So, i don't really know, why this does not work at all. It works fine with the text version, but fails with dbm.
>How-To-Repeat:
RedHat 7 base system, apache 1.3.20
compile, install, use dbm: maps in mod_rewrite...
>Fix:

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