I apologize for the confusion. I am trying to skip the webpage that is in the local folder 'webcontent/www.test.com' and retrieve the webpage that is at the actual Internet site www.test.com. In this configuration, I have Apache listening on port 9980 and serving up pages from within the 'webcontent' folder first, if they exist. For example, if I type 'http://www.math.com', it first looks in the local directory for that page. In my case, that page is in webcontent, so Apache serves that version. Now say I request slashdot. Apache looks in the directory webcontent, doesn't find it, so it connects to slashdot.org and brings up that page. That part works fine. My problem is figuring out a way for Apache to ignore the local webcontent folder if test.com is requested and automatically retrieve the page from the Internet.
-Josh Greenwood

On 10/5/05, Joshua Slive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/4/05, Josh Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I am using Apache 2.0.54. I am having difficulty with the following
> rewritecond/rewriterule:
>
>      # See if the requested page is http://www.test.com
>      RewriteCond  %{SERVER_NAME}  www.test.com
>      # It is. Now see if " www.test.com" is a folder in the webcontent/
> directory
>      RewriteCond
> %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/webcontent/%{SERVER_NAME} -d
>      # it is.
>      RewriteRule  ^/(.*)$
> http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI} [S=5]
>
>  This produces the following output in rewritelog:
>
>  (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /
>  (3) applying pattern '^/(.*)$' to uri '/'
>  (4) RewriteCond: input='www.test.com' pattern='www.test.com' => matched
>  (4) RewriteCond:
> input='C:/egranary/webcontent/www.test.com' pattern='-d' =>
> matched
>  (2) rewrite / -> http://www.test.com/
>  (2) implicitly forcing redirect (rc=302) with http://www.test.com/
>  (1) escaping http://www.test.com/ for redirect
>  (1) redirect to http://www.test.com/ [REDIRECT/302]
>
>  The above 8-line log sequence repeats itself a few thousand times per
> request.
>  My intention is to filter the request 'www.test.com', check to see if there
> exists a directory called 'www.test.com'
>  in a local directory called 'webcontent', and if there is, ignore the page
> in that local directory and retrieve the actual page from test.com. I
> realize this seems like a strange thing to do - it is for a configuration
> which normally serves pages out of the local webcontent folder,
>  due to little and/or unreliable Internet connectivity. In this example,
> 'www.test.com' would be an important enough
>  page to get the most current version. Note that the '[S=5]' in the
> rewriteRule is just skipping the rest of the
>  rules and conditions. The two rewriteconds seem to be doing their intended
> jobs, the rewriterule is not retrieving the page ' www.test.com' from the
> Internet. I appreciate any ideas.

I find your problem description very confusing.  It is obvious you are
creating a redirect loop, because you are redirecting back to the same
server with exactly the same path.  Exactly what is supposed to be
changed by this RewriteRule to prevent the same rules from matching
again?

Joshua.

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