Thanks Rainer.
The mod_speling works great. However I have a new interesting problem
In my vhost I have
proxypass /somedir /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir
proxypassreverse /somedir /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir
The above works fine and mod_speling catches any weird way that somedir
can be written.
But...
Since I need this server to also proxy requests to / for
www.somedomain.com when I put in
proxypass / http://www.somedomain.com
proxypassreverse / /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir
the mod_speling no longer works. It seems to only process only if none
of the proxypass rules match
and since the rule for / matches http://www.somedomain.com/SoMeDir
mod_speling does not kick in.
Do you know of a way around this?
Thanks,
Nick
Rainer Perske wrote:
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Nick Ascione schrieb am 2006-09-20:
[reverse proxy for <http://www.somedomain.com/somedir> is configured]
[creating a local directory .../htdocs/somedir triggers mod_speling]
[so that that .../SoMeDir gets redirected to .../somedir]
With mod_speling, that only appears to work if the directory is on
the local machine?
correct.
What about in the case of a reverse proxy?
When a user goes to <http://www.somedomain.com/SoMeDir> there is no
need for a reverse proxy. mod_speling returns a Redirect because it
finds the local dummy directory "somedir" in the local "htdocs"
directory.
When the browser follows the redirect, i.e. when it sends a new request
to <http://www.somedomain.com/somedir>, your existent reverse proxy
configuration entry is regarded, thus the server does not even look
at/into the dummy directory now.
I.e. the server will never serve any contents of the dummy directory.
(It does not even matter whether "somedir" is a directory or a file or
a symlink or something else: only the pure entry of the name in the
htdocs directory is regarded by mod_speling. I myself use "ln -sf
Redirect .../htdocs/somedir" to create a dangling symbolic link for
this purpose.)
HTH
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Rainer Perske, Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Münster
Lesetipp: <http://www.textkritik.de/schriftundcharakter/sundc008tofu.htm>
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