> This leads me to believe that the Rewrite engine is ignored when an
> Alias kicks in, otherwise the *.shtml files would be bounced back to
> the back-end server where they get properly expanded. Normally, this
> is ok for me since everything else in the aliased directory is an
> image which I want the front end to handle.
>
> Has this bitten anyone else? Stas, I think you should mention this in
> the guide somehow as something to watch out for when using the proxy
> front-end. The Rewrite rules are ignored when an Alias expands the
> URI, or so it seems from where I sit.
Actually I got bitten by the opposite, my Alias directives are ignored
when Rewrite kicks in. I assume it depends on the Apache module order,
and as Ask explained when one trans handler returns OK the other is
of course ignored, so I too had to convert my Alias statements to
rewrite rules.
--
Eric
