On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 08:48:56PM +1000, Paul W. Rankin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m trying to get a basic URL rewrite working with httpd but, alas, it
> seems broken.
It's not broken :-).
>
> My goal:
>
> /~USER -> /htdocs/u/USER
root "/htdocs/u"
location match "/~(.*)" {
request rewrite "/%1"
}
> To debug this, in case the “~” character was throwing something off, I
> simply tried to achieve:
>
> /u/USER -> /htdocs/u/USER
root "/htdocs/u"
location match "/u/(.*)" {
request rewrite "/%1"
}
> I’m aware this can be achieved with request strip, but this is for
> purposes of demonstrating the bug.
It's not a bug :-)
Try accessing specific files such as:
http://example.com/~my_user/my_file
and it works.
You are probably expecting _auto indexing_, which doesn't happen for rewritten
requests.
Depending on your use case you might want to a couple of extra location match
directives such as this:
location match "/~(.*)/" {
request rewrite "/%1/index.html"
}
location match "/~(.*)$" {
request rewrite "/%1/index.html"
}
...which will redirect such requests to an index.html file.
