Ohohohoh! Now that sounds promising! Will give that a shot. On 08/23/2010 01:50 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Why do you want mod_rewrite at all? Enabling that mod_mime > directive will let mod_autoindex remap / to /index.html when it exists > in the virtual filesystem. -- justin > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > wrote: >> Hrm. I'm not seeing the connection here. I'm looking for a way to pull off >> a Rewrite condition based on the existence of a given URI. The docs imply >> that this can be done with "RewriteCond SOME_URI -U", but appear to just be >> wrong -- the existence of SOME_URI doesn't appear to tested at all, only >> it's accessibility (from an authn/authz standpoint). >> >> >> On 08/20/2010 12:51 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: >>> Based on what you describe, I think this is likely what you are looking for: >>> >>> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_mime.html#modmimeusepathinfo >>> >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200209.mbox/%3c20020904211343.ga16...@apache.org%3e >>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200306.mbox/%3c2147483647.1054772...@[10.0.1.37]%3e >>> >>> HTH. -- justin >>> >>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >>> wrote: >>>> [Warning: This matter is far from highly pertinent. One tackles strange >>>> non-problems when in an atypical environment, such as a hotel room in CA.] >>>> >>>> I had someone ask me about Subversion autoindex support. So, like, you >>>> point a web browser at >>>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/publish/ and *pow* >>>> magically >>>> you are now looking at the index.html inside that directory. >>>> >>>> Clearly, this could be done with an hour or two of mod_dav_svn hackery and >>>> some new directives there. But I was trying to come up with an httpd.conf >>>> workaround that did the trick. Here's what I tried. (On my system, all my >>>> Subversion repositories live inside the /repos/ Location.) >>>> >>>> # If this is a GET request (but not a subrequest) aimed at my >>>> # collection of Subversion repositories and with a trailing slash, and >>>> # if there exists an index.html file inside that directory, then >>>> # temporarily redirect the browser to the index.html file. >>>> RewriteEngine on >>>> RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} false >>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET >>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/repos/.*/$ >>>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}index.html -U >>>> RewriteRule /repos/(.*)/$ /repos/$1/index.html [L,R] >>>> >>>> The result was that for every directory in which an index.html was found, >>>> that file was served (via a browser redirect). Yay! Unfortunately, the >>>> redirect was transmitted for directories which had no index.html child, >>>> too. >>>> Boo! >>>> >>>> Sadly, I found that despite the fact that the Apache docs say about that >>>> "-U" test the following: >>>> >>>> '-U' (is existing URL, via subrequest) >>>> Checks whether or not TestString is a valid URL, accessible via all >>>> the server's currently-configured access controls for that path. This >>>> uses an internal subrequest to do the check, so use it with care - it >>>> can impact your server's performance! >>>> >>>> In reality "validity" in this context seems to have nothing to do with >>>> "existence". I traced the subrequest that mod_rewrite made into >>>> Subversion, >>>> and found that it never enters mod_dav to actually perform an existence >>>> get. >>>> I guess I expected that the subrequest would GET all the way into >>>> Subversion, where it would get the appropriate error code (HTTP_NOT_FOUND). >>>> In retrospect, I think I knew that subrequests don't behavior like >>>> full-fledged content-fetching requests. But the documentation quoted above >>>> is pretty misleading, at any rate, IMO. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >>>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand >>>> >> >> >> -- >> C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand >>
-- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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