Joost de Heer wrote:
Robert Ionescu wrote:
Shyne wrote:
Apparently the directive RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f matches
requests for existing files, which it should exactly not do.
We were able to analyze the RewriteLog in a German mod_rewrite forum.
The problem here was the following:
%{REQUEST_FILENAME} did contain the value from %{REQUEST_URI}, namely
/help/abc but not the expected and needed full physical path
/var/www/help/abc.
Sounds like you're using rewrites in a .htaccess file. That results in
directories at the beginning being chopped off.
No, the rules were placed in the virtualhost section, per-server context.
I have never heard that ENVs are choped off in per-dir context, only the
pattern of the RewriteRule is a filepath there (while a local URL in
per-server context) which changes from the point where the .htaccess is
placed (striped per-dir prefix).
But the "problem" here is not the rule-pattern but the value of the ENV
%{REQUEST_FILENAME} where (in per-server context) the filename field of
request_rec contains the same value as the uri field does.
I think this is a logical behavior, because afaik the filename
translation comes in a later step of processing, so the full physical
path is simply not known in this step of processing.
I found also an assigned docs bug report from January 2003:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16402 but obviously it
is not fixed yet.
At least the "average user" cannot read between the lines
| the value of the filename field of the internal request_rec structure
| of the Apache server.
| (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritecond ,
| "Other things you should be aware of:")
that filename does not (cannot) contain the full physical path in
per-server context (if you don't perform an url-based sub-request lookup).
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Robert
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