Write your own 404 page? Is that good enough?
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Haroon Rafique <haroon.rafi...@utoronto.ca>wrote: > Hi there, > > I am running a reverse proxy (using mod_proxy) and I would like to > internally rewrite (using mod_rewrite) certain files and instead send their > pre-compressed .gz versions. I have minified and compressed versions of .js > and .css files available with .gz extensions (using yuicompressor, if it > matters) through the proxied backend. The files may or may not be physically > located on the reverse proxy (depending on whether the backend is running on > the same machine or not). This is what has worked for me as follows: > > RewriteEngine On > > # static .js files should be internally redirected to gzipped ones > RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/rxp/.+\.js$ > RewriteRule ^(.+\.js)$ proxy:balancer://glassfishcluster$1.gz > [E=gz:gz,E=jsgz:jsgz,L] > > # static .css files should be internally redirected to gzipped ones > RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip > RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/rxp/.+\.css$ > RewriteRule ^(.+\.css)$ proxy:balancer://glassfishcluster$1.gz > [E=gz:gz,E=cssgz:cssgz,L] > > # set some headers for gzipped content > Header set Content-Encoding gzip env=gz > Header set Content-Type text/javascript env=jsgz > Header set Content-Type text/css env=cssgz > > The above works well so far. The Content-Encoding and the Content-Type > headers are okay as well. The only problem is if the requested URL is not > available (e.g., typo). Then I do get a 404, but since the Content-Encoding > header still says gzip, the browser displays: > > * Content Encoding Error > The page you are trying to view cannot be > shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of > compression. > > Any way around the "improper" 404 screen? In general, is my rewrite > strategy above somewhat sound? Comments, thoughts are welcome. > > This is on RHEL Server 5.3. > > Server version: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) > Server built: Nov 17 2009 16:38:48 > > Compiled in modules: > core.c > worker.c > http_core.c > mod_so.c > > Thanks, > -- > Haroon Rafique > <haroon.rafi...@utoronto.ca> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >