Thanks for the info. I think the problem is that I am trying to use the REMOTE_USER in the rewrite for example:

RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} !^$

Which is later used in the RewriteRule. I just checked and found that when I remove the LA-U:REMOTE_USER part of the rewrite rule the error does not occur. This bug report helped me to understand why it was failing: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45187

I am not quite sure how I can fix my rules though. I understand that using an LA-U causes a subrequest in order to get the authenticated user and I believe this is what is causing the failure. (Auth causes a directory walk?)

Any ideas on how to get the authenticated user for a RewriteRule without causing a directory walk? I was tossing around the idea of using an env var or a cookie, but both seem like bad ideas.

Thanks,
Michael
On 9/17/2014 11:04 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
It's from ap_directory_walk()

             else if ((rv != APR_SUCCESS && rv != APR_INCOMPLETE)
                      || !(thisinfo.valid & APR_FINFO_TYPE)) {
                 /* If we hit ENOTDIR, we must have over-optimized, deny
                  * rather than assume not found.
                  */
                 ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_ERR, rv, r, APLOGNO(00036)
                               "access to %s failed (filesystem path '%s')",
                               r->uri, r->filename);
                 return r->status = HTTP_FORBIDDEN;
             }

On Sep 17, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:

On 09/16/2014 02:50 PM, mmccar...@tribloom.com wrote:
I am using RewriteRule and the proxy flag to proxy through Apache. When a long 
URL is passed through (longer than 255 characters), I get the error below 
(redacted). I understand that this is related to the maximum file name on the 
OS, in this case Ubuntu 14.04. My question is why is this happening when the 
URL is not related to a file on the file system? The URL is rewritten, then 
proxied to another server that works fine with long URLs.

[Mon Sep 15 11:42:04.211290 2014] [core:error] [pid 18302:tid 140171735451392] (36)File 
name too long: [client xxx.xx.x.xxx:53717] AH00036: access to /<long file 
path>/_aliases failed (filesystem path '/<long file path>), referer: 
http://xx.xx.xx.xxx/index.html

Thanks,
That error message doesn't appear to be from the httpd server itself (ie, that 
message doesn't appear anywhere in the source code for trunk, 2.4, 2.2, or 
2.0), which leads me to believe that 1) it's in fact from your filesystem, and 
2) there's no direct way to fix that in httpd configuration.

As thy why it matters when the file isn't on the filesystem, that's hard to 
tell without more context, but I presume that at some point in the process it 
is *looking* for the file in the filesystem.

For example, if this RewriteRule is in a .htaccess file, rather than in the 
main server config, it did in fact have to navigate to a filesystem directory 
before consulting that .htaccess file.

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