Hi - been a week, curious if anyone has any ideas?
Josh
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:00:17 -0600
Josh Trutwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi - through some great help from this list (I'm looking at you
> Joshua Slive) I was able to setup a RewriteMap using a PhP program.
> After a couple months usage on a number of heavy sites we're
> noticing an odd inconsistent problem that causes ALL site requests
> to yeild this nasty error:
>
> mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming
> configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase
> the limit if neccessary.
>
> The program is called rewriter.php and starts with this directive:
>
> RewriteLock '/tmp/rewrite.lock'
> RewriteMap rewriter prg:/usr/local/bin/rewriter.php
>
> A site that wants to use this URL mapper has this in
> their .htaccess:
>
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
> RewriteRule .* ${rewriter:%{REQUEST_FILENAME}^%{REQUEST_URI}}
> [L,QSA,NS]
>
> There are some other directives involved to 301 redirect old URL's
> to the new ones, but I don't think they are the problem.
>
> The program source can be seen here:
>
> http://batcave.intrcomm.net/rewriter.phps
>
> In a nutshell what happens is the program parses stdin (which from
> the RewriteRule is the REQUEST_FILENAME followed by the REQUEST_URI)
> - from this information it can find the site's virtual host
> directory and load a file called _rewrite_map.php which is a simple
> php associated array containing for each page then URL should it map
> to. This works fine until someone updates that file through
> releasing pages on their site (via a CMS). Occasionally, (maybe 5%
> of the time) when this file is updated the above error occurs on
> every request. The ONLY way to fix this is to hard stop and start
> the server (a restart doesn't restart the php RewriteMap program)
> When the server is restarted, all works well - until the next time
> updating this file causes this problem.
>
> I've added some logging where the URL is returned to the apache
> process:
>
> if (DEBUG) { error_log("Map found for URI: $uri: $uri_under " .
> $map[$uri] . "\n", 3, '/tmp/rewriter.log'); }
>
> fputs($stdout, $map[$uri] . "\n"); // tell RewriteRule the URL
>
> Even when these maximum redirect errors are happening, the program
> is still logging the above using the correct URL - it's not having
> any problems accessing the map file. I added some additional file
> locking (also to the program that updates the file) but that didn't
> help.
>
> Someone at work here suggested that it might have to do with how
> stdin and stdout are defined, which makes sense so I'm trying that
> next but I wanted to see if any gurus on this list know of any
> strange RewriteMap bugs/gotchas like this.
>
> PhP is 4.4 - apache is 1.3.37 - linux 2.4
>
> Thanks - let me know if additional info is needed.
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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