>Number: 570
>Category: mod_rewrite
>Synopsis: ReWriteEngine On not inherited from general server config into
>virtual host config.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: apache
>Arrival-Date: Sun May 11 09:50:01 1997
>Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Organization:
apache
>Release: 1.2b8
>Environment:
/opt/web/servers/unicycle/apache wumpus # uname -a
SunOS wumpus 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,Sun_4_600
(this machine is www.ukoln.ac.uk)
Built using Gcc, noting special added in, no tinkering.
>Description:
Our httpd.config goes something like this:
# General server stuff:
listen 138.38.32.10:80
# Allow use of mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "/opt/web/servers/unicycle/apache/logs/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
# Restrict privilages.
User nobody
Group nogroup
HostnameLookups on
[..etc..]
<virtualhost _default_>
# Config for www.ukoln.ac.uk, ukoln.ac.uk, ukoln.bath.ac.uk etc.
[...etc...]
# map home directories onto other machine:
ReWriteRule ^/~(.*) http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~$1
[...etc...]
</virtualhost>
[...etc...]
We found that the rewiteRule wasn't getting executed. When we put
"ReWriteEngine On" *inside* the virtual host config, it worked. The docs
say that the ReWriteRule directive is suitable for the server config, so
I assumed it would be inherited by the virtual hosts.
>How-To-Repeat:
I can send you our server configs before and after fixing it ourselves if you
want.
>Fix:
Either change mod_rewrite so that once the engine is turned on in general
config then it is on in the Vhosts (unless specifically turned off in them?)
*or* say in the docs that it needs to be turned on in each one.
%0
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
