Did this on my dev machine and it worked great, but on my leopard server 
deployment machine I added the same entry in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and no 
dice.  The shorter URL's are being output from my app using the Wonder 
er.extensions.ERXApplication.replaceApplicationPath properties, but I get the 
"requested URL not found" error when I click on one of them.  Nothing in the 
rewrite.log file.  Is there some other property to set in httpd.conf or 
elsewhere?

Thanks,
Jeff


On Apr 16, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:

> Finally! Searching the apache docs more, I found another option PT, the 
> passthrough option, that specifically refers to this being needed for 
> mod_alias or using mod_rewrite with any other modules that do URI-to-filename 
> mapping or translation.
> 
> The final working rewrite rule is:
> 
> <IfModule rewrite_module>
> # rewrite logging
> RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite.log"
> 
> # PURL feature
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteRule ^/purl/(.*)$ 
> /cgi-bin/WebObjects/cheetah.woa/-52040/wa/PurlAction/purl?p=$1 [PT]
> </IfModule>
> 
> Thanks for the mind-prodding guys.
> 
> Now it is working in apache2 on my dev machine. Hopefully apache 1.3 will be 
> similar configuration when I deploy this feature in a few days.
> 
> Regards, Kieran
> 
> On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:28 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
> 
>> I added an [R] option on the end of the rule to force an external redirect 
>> and it works, albeit the URL in the browser address bar becomes the ugly 
>> one. So, at least this is returning the page ... not let's see if I can make 
>> it do without an external redirect so that the short URL stays in the 
>> browser address bar .... (since the marketing design spec wants the short 
>> URL)
>> 
>> <IfModule rewrite_module>
>> # rewrite logging
>> RewriteLog "/tmp/rewrite.log"
>> 
>> # PURL feature
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteRule ^/purl/(.*)$ 
>> /cgi-bin/WebObjects/cheetah.woa/-52040/wa/PurlAction/purl?p=$1 [R]
>> </IfModule>
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>> 
>>> I am using WO 5.3 on leopard with apache 2.2.9. The wo module is coming 
>>> before rewrite module in httpd.conf:
>>> LoadModule WebObjects_module 
>>> /System/Library/WebObjects/Adaptors/Apache2.2/mod_WebObjects.so
>>> LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
>>> 
>>> Further investigation shows that each time I try to access the short URL, I 
>>> see the following error in the apache error_log:
>>> [Thu Apr 16 10:12:15 2009] [error] [client ::1] File does not exist: 
>>> /Library/WebServer/Documents/cgi-bin
>>> 
>>> So just maybe the rewrite rule is working but the result may be conflicting 
>>> with mod_alias which has a scriptalias entry for the wo cgi-bin???
>>> 
>>> Does that ring any bells with anyone?
>>> 
>>> Kieran
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>> 
>>>> if you're rewriting to wo instances, you need to make sure the ordering of 
>>>> your modules is right, too ... in 5.3 (i don't know about 5.4), the order 
>>>> of the modules was wrong -- you have to make mod_webobjects come before 
>>>> mod_rewrite (iirc).
>>>> 
>>>> ms
>>>> 
>>>> On Apr 16, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Kieran Kelleher wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello list,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well when Brian Moore said mod_rewrite was voodoo 
>>>>> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/), I was skeptical, but now I 
>>>>> believe him! I need some help for what I think should be a pretty simple 
>>>>> rewrite rule. I am currently trying to get this to work initially on my 
>>>>> development machine, and I keep getting a 404 "Not Found" message from 
>>>>> apache (version 2.2.9).
>>>>> 
>>>>> The rule is supposed to take convert URLs like this :
>>>>> http://localhost/purl/KieranKelleher
>>>>> 
>>>>> and rewrite them like this (on my dev machine):
>>>>> http://localhost/cgi-bin/WebObjects/cheetah.woa/-52040/wa/PurlAction/purl?p=KieranKelleher
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have added this to the end of my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf just before 
>>>>> the last 2 includes at the end of the file (other/*.conf and WO 
>>>>> apache.conf)
>>>>> 
>>>>> <IfModule rewrite_module>
>>>>> # rewrite logging
>>>>> RewriteLog "/tmp/rewrite.log"
>>>>> 
>>>>> # PURL feature
>>>>> RewriteEngine On
>>>>> RewriteRule ^/purl/(.*)$ 
>>>>> /cgi-bin/WebObjects/cheetah.woa/-52040/wa/PurlAction/purl?p=$1
>>>>> </IfModule>
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can confirm that when I restarted apache it creates the 
>>>>> /tmp/rewrite.log if it does not exist, however nothing gets written there.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have studied the docs, the wiki docs and many examples. This looks like 
>>>>> it should work, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it does 
>>>>> not work :-(
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any clues or hints would be appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks, Kieran
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