[users@httpd] Odd? mod_rewrite behavior

[Lesley Kimmel <lj...@hotmail.com>]

All;

I have an application being proxied through Apache which is also serving some static content for the web application. The application is '/xyz(.*)' and the static content is '/xyz-static-content'. The requests for the static content come in as '/xyz_<version>' and have to be rewritten to '/xyz-static-content'.

I can successfully get both to work with the following rules:

RewriteRule ^xyz-static-content_[A-Z0-9a-z._-]+/(.*) xyz-static-content/$1
RewriteRule ^xyz/?$ xyz/ [C]
RewriteRule ^xyz/(.*) http://appserver:port/xzy/$1 [P]

However, the following set of rules does not work (the static content does not display):

RewriteRule ^xyz-static-content_[A-Z0-9a-z._-]+/(.*) xyz-static-content/$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^xzy(.*) http://appserver:port/xyz$1 [P]

It seems that even the 'xyz-static-content' requests are falling through to, and matching, the proxy statement despite the 'L|Last' flag. Can anyone explain this behavior? I'm trying to use the second set of rules to avoid having to rewrite the situation where the user requests just '/xyz' to '/xyz/'.

Thanks,
-Kimmel
 		 	   		  

RE: [users@httpd] Odd? mod_rewrite behavior

[Lesley Kimmel <lj...@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for that lead. These rules ARE in a 'Directory' block so this is the case. It looks like I can resolve this by placing a 'catch-all' after the first 'xyz-static-content' rewrite:

RewriteRule ^xyz-static-content_[A-Z0-9a-z._-]+/(.*)$ xyz-static-content/$1
RewriteRule ^xyz-static-content - [L]

Do you see any more straight-forward or efficient way to handle this?

Thanks,
-Kimmel

Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:35:03 -0400
From: covener@gmail.com
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Odd? mod_rewrite behavior


On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Lesley Kimmel <lj...@hotmail.com> wrote:
It seems that even the 'xyz-static-content' requests are falling through to, and matching, the proxy statement despite the 'L|Last' flag. Can anyone explain this behavior? I'm trying to use the second set of rules to avoid having to rewrite the situation where the user requests just '/xyz' to '/xyz/'.
​The manual has cautions about the L flag and per-directory (htaccess) rewrites.  When you make a substitution in htaccess, the whole thing starts over.


 		 	   		  

Re: [users@httpd] Odd? mod_rewrite behavior

[Eric Covener <co...@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Lesley Kimmel <lj...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> It seems that even the 'xyz-static-content' requests are falling through
> to, and matching, the proxy statement despite the 'L|Last' flag. Can anyone
> explain this behavior? I'm trying to use the second set of rules to avoid
> having to rewrite the situation where the user requests just '/xyz' to
> '/xyz/'.


​The manual has cautions about the L flag and per-directory (htaccess)
rewrites.  When you make a substitution in htaccess, the whole thing starts
over.