Leif posted on something like thishttps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TS-675
back in 03/11 for version 2.x saying that map rules take precedence over
redirect rules - though I wasn't sure if this was being called a bug or not?
Can you write your regex_map rule to exclude beetroot.server.net?
cheers,Servalan
> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:39:16 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Priority of remap.config rules
> To: [email protected]
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to configure a map and redirect rule in remap.config and wanted
> to find out what the precedence of rules are.
>
> From some experiments it looks like map rules in general take precendence
> over redirect rules.
>
>
> My use case is I have a regex_map rule which catches a set of urls. For one
> of those urls I want an exception that gets redirected. The redirect rule is
> listed first so I expected that rule to handle the request. Instead the map
> rule is catching the request. Is there some way to do this? I thought about
> potentially using the regex remap plugin to handle the redirect but that
> seems like an ugly hack.
>
> For example if we set up
>
> redirect http://beetroot.server.net:8080 http://www.yahoo.com
> regex_map http://.*.server.net:8080 http://www.google.com
>
> and we hit this with
>
> curl -v -o dontwant.txt beetroot.server.net:8080/images
>
> we get a 302 from google to
> Location: http://beetroot.server.net:8080/imghp
>
>
> If we remove the regex_map line we get a 301 from yahoo to
>
> Location: http://www.yahoo.com/images
>
> Thanks
