mod_rewrite help

[Guest_imported]

I am having a problem getting mod_rewrite to work.

I have the following:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/somepath(.*) $1

For the requested URL

http://localhost/somepath/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html

I get the following in the rewrite log:
(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /somepath/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html
(3) applying pattern '^/somepath(.*)' to uri '/somepath/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html'
(2) rewrite /somepath/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html -> /manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html
(2) local path result: /manual/mod/mod_rewrite.html
(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /error/HTTP_BAD_REQUEST.html.var {...and the error continues}

It appears to get the correct substitution but it just doesn't work. If I put a [R] at the end of the rule, the redirect does work...

I have spent a long time trying to figure out why, but with no success.

Hopefully someone can help

Regards
Colin

 

[sleipnir214]

I believe the output of your rewrite is an absolute system path, not a path relative to your document root. That would be why the "[R]" directive works -- it tells the browser to ask for the new file directly.

Add the RewriteBase directive with the filesystem path to your document root. Put it before your RewriteRule line.

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TANSTAAFL!

 

[Guest_imported]

Thanks for that (sleipnir214?)

Gave it a try... I am setting the rule in the main httpd config file so got the following error:
>>> RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files.

Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated and I will give them a try.

Regards
Colin

 

[sleipnir214]

RewriteBase can only apply to rewrite operations for a single directory, not for a whole site. If my picture of your problem is right, you'd want different RewriteBase settings for different directories.

It has to be placed in either a .htaccess file in the directory in question, or inside a <Directory...> directive in httpd.conf which applies to the directory in question. ______________________________________________________________________
TANSTAAFL!

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

Thought you might have solved it... but it didn't work.

Also checked, the docs and it seemed to indicate that RewriteRule could almost go anywhere... I am still a bit unsure of where it should go though.

Here is some more of the rewrite log. It looks like the rewrite rule works, and rewrote the URI from /somepath/manual/ to /manual/ which (to me) looks fine. If you type in localhost/manual/ in the browser it works, but /manual/ in the config file doesn't seem to work.

From the log...
(2) rewrite /somepath/manual/ -> /manual/
(2) local path result: /manual/

Still haven't figured it out. Looks like the rewrite works, so maybe there is something else wrong??

Any help still appreciated.
Regards
Colin