[users@httpd] Need help to get mod_rewrite to behave the way I want it to:)

["Galella, Anthony" <an...@intel.com>]

This is my setup:

Operating System:	FreeBSD 4.5
web server & mods:	Apache 1.3.27
				mod_ssl 2.8.11
compiled with the following config options in my Makefile (used FreeBSD port
and added rewrite enable)
                --server-uid=www 
                --server-gid=www 
                --with-perl=${PERL} 
                --with-layout=FreeBSD 
                --without-confadjust 
                --enable-module=most
                --enable-module=auth_db 
                --enable-module=mmap_static 
                --disable-module=auth_dbm 
                --enable-shared=max 
                --enable-module=ssl 
                --enable-module=define 
                --enable-module=rewrite 

I am trying to use mod_rewrite to redirect any request for a login from
phpBB to go to a secure (SSL) URL. 
 For some reason it is not behaving as advertised in documentation(as I
interpret it),  am I doing something wrong?
This is in my global section of http.conf (I am not using any virtual
domains.)
 
-----snip-------
# Rewrite insecure URL requests for phpBB logins to SSL logins

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond     %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule http://%{SERVER_NAME}/phpBB2/login.php\?sid\=(.*)$
https://%{SERVER_NAME}/phpBB2/login.php\?sid\=$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule http://%{SERVER_NAME}/phpBB2/login.php$
https://%{SERVER_NAME}/phpBB2/login.php [R,L]
RewriteLog     "/var/log/rewritelog"
RewriteLogLevel        9
-----snip--------


The above Rewrite rules do not work.  The first rule has additional
characters, because sometimes there is a sid(session identifier) used to
track the session  I can't debug it because the Rewritelog doesn't work
either.
(I get the following when starting apache with the RewriteLog statement):

Syntax error on line 439 of /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf:
RewriteLog not allowed here

  I figured that mod_rewrite wasn't loading, but the below rules work with
no problem (I need to comment out the Log stuff and above rules):

-The first one redirects "the everything" to a secure URL.  
-The second one redirects any requests to the web root over to the php URL. 

RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
RewriteRule     ^$      http://%{SERVER_NAME}/phpBB2 [R,L]

So this tells me mod_rewrite works, but I must be doing something
wrong....:(
I've been googling around for this for quite awhile with no success, any
ideas?  

Thanks, and Happy Holidays to all.

-Tony


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Anthony J. Galella
anthony.galella@intel.com




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