Actually I figured it out finally , I had to set the RewriteBase to /scripts and voila.
Thanks for all the feedbacks though set me on the right path. Cheers. From: ssab...@hotmail.com To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] mod_rewrite - Error when trying to rewrite one cgi script to another Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 14:28:58 -0700 Hi, Does the log i provided below provide any clues of why my rewrite is failing? Can a executable folder in apache be rewritten ad all? If so can someeone please provide an example? I have really hit a wall with this. Cheers. From: ssab...@hotmail.com To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] mod_rewrite - Error when trying to rewrite one cgi script to another Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 15:08:44 -0700 Alright, finally got the rewrite log to work and here is what it spits out when I attempt the redirect described earlier: [07/Jul/2010:15:05:07 --0700] [localhost/sid#6b5148][rid#75a040/initial] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/] strip per-dir prefix: C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/from.cgi -> from.cgi [07/Jul/2010:15:05:07 --0700] [localhost/sid#6b5148][rid#75a040/initial] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/] applying pattern '^from.cgi' to uri 'from.cgi' [07/Jul/2010:15:05:07 --0700] [localhost/sid#6b5148][rid#75a040/initial] (2) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/] rewrite 'from.cgi' -> 'to.cgi' [07/Jul/2010:15:05:07 --0700] [localhost/sid#6b5148][rid#75a040/initial] (3) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/] add per-dir prefix: to.cgi -> C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/to.cgi [07/Jul/2010:15:05:07 --0700] [localhost/sid#6b5148][rid#75a040/initial] (1) [perdir C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/] internal redirect with C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/scripts/to.cgi [INTERNAL REDIRECT] Looks to me like it is trying to do the right thing. why it is giving a 404 is very puzzling to me. Hopefully these logs shed some light. Cheers. > Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 08:18:23 -0400 > From: cove...@gmail.com > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] mod_rewrite - Error when trying to rewrite one cgi > script to another > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:41 AM, S. Saberi <ssab...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > actually I just put the directive into the httpd.conf file and i see that > > the log file is being created upon restart of apache. > > > > But when I invokde the rewrite nothing gets logged into it. > > > > Any guidance is greatly appreciated. > > > > It's gotta be in the vhost handling the request, and you need to also > set RewriteLoglevel to something non-zero (like 9) > > > -- > Eric Covener > cove...@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >
