https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46376
Summary: %{REQUEST_FILENAME} does not hold full local filesystem
path to the file or script matching the request
Product: Apache httpd-2
Version: 2.2-HEAD
Platform: PC
URL: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#re
writecond
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: Documentation
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the section RewriteCond Directive, it says:
REQUEST_FILENAME
The full local filesystem path to the file or script matching the request.
However, this variable seems to hold only the part on the URL after the
hostname. Example, in
- http://localhost/images/hotelphotos1/14032.jpg
According to the documentation, with a DocumentRoot of "/var/www/html", you
would expect %{REQUEST_FILENAME} to be
- /var/www/html/images/hotelphotos1/14032.jpg
But it really is just:
- /images/hotelphotos1/14032.jpg
How to prove/reproduce:
- Apache 2.2.10 (ArchLinux official package)
- In the vhost config, I have one and only one rule:
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.google.com/?test=%{REQUEST_FILENAME} [L]
Using the URL http://localhost/images/hotelphotos1/14032.jpg, I get
http://www.google.com/?test=/images/hotelphotos1/14032.jpg
which shows that %{REQUEST_FILENAME} is NOT the full local filesystem path to
14032.jpg.
This is an issue because RewriteCond testing for the presence of a file, ie
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f will always return False.
It can be circumvented using
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
I could reproduce this bug/behavior on CentOS5 and the latest Apache2 rpm.
To be, this behavoir makes sense. It'd rather need a change in the
documentation for that feature.
Regards.
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