Re: Writing an Apache 404 Handler in CF
Hi Jon, thanks for the reply!
I'm far from an expert on Apache; in my httpd.conf, I don't seem to have any
rewrite rules at all. Where would I put these? Inside the virtualHost section
for my redirect app?
If it helps any, we're running Railo 4.2.1 on Tomcat 7, not sure if that
affects the Apache config.
Thanks a bunch!
Rob
Youve likely got a rewrite rule passes everything that is not a
document to CF for handling. Im guessing you have a friendly URL
setup that routes everything through index.cfm, which is why the
redirect is taking place. Something like this is probably the
culprit:
#These are handled by Apache and not by CF
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.
(bmp|gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|txt|xls|ico|swf)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
#Everything else is handled by Coldfusion
RewriteRule ^$ index.cfm [QSA,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.cfm/%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L,NS]
If you change the rule for static files to include .aspx, then Apache
will handle that 404 as usual:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.
(aspx|bmp|gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|txt|xls|ico|swf)$
HTH,
Jon
On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk
wrote:
Wouldn't url rewriting be better for this?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 20:46 PM, Robert Glover sled...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is as much an Apache question as it is a CF question; I hope
this is
acceptable. I posted it to Serverfault several days ago and
haven't
gotten any response, and it's become a rather critical issue.
-
I've written a custom 404 handler for Apache. The handler looks at
the
incoming URL (cgi.request_url), queries a database table, and
responds by
redirecting the visitor to the new URL. What should happen:
www.mysite.co.uk gets redirected to www.mysite.com
That much works fine. But when we get to more complex urls:
www.mysite.co.uk/contact.aspx should go to www.mysite.com/contact/
Something (Apache?) is stripping out the contact.aspx portion of it
so I
can't tell where to send the user. In fact, what's happening instead
is
contact.aspx is replaced with index.cfm (the name of the 404
handler). No
other variables returned in the CGI scope contain the contact.aspx
part of
the url.
Of course, we have the domain to be redirected pointed at this
server via
DNS, and configured in Apache, since the simple versions of the URL
work
fine.
Is there a configuration setting or something to get it to stop
stripping
out the rest of the url? Thanks!
Rob
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Re: Writing an Apache 404 Handler in CF
Wouldn't url rewriting be better for this? On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 20:46 PM, Robert Glover sled...@gmail.com wrote: This is as much an Apache question as it is a CF question; I hope this is acceptable. I posted it to Serverfault several days ago and haven't gotten any response, and it's become a rather critical issue. - I've written a custom 404 handler for Apache. The handler looks at the incoming URL (cgi.request_url), queries a database table, and responds by redirecting the visitor to the new URL. What should happen: www.mysite.co.uk gets redirected to www.mysite.com That much works fine. But when we get to more complex urls: www.mysite.co.uk/contact.aspx should go to www.mysite.com/contact/ Something (Apache?) is stripping out the contact.aspx portion of it so I can't tell where to send the user. In fact, what's happening instead is contact.aspx is replaced with index.cfm (the name of the 404 handler). No other variables returned in the CGI scope contain the contact.aspx part of the url. Of course, we have the domain to be redirected pointed at this server via DNS, and configured in Apache, since the simple versions of the URL work fine. Is there a configuration setting or something to get it to stop stripping out the rest of the url? Thanks! Rob ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359452 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Writing an Apache 404 Handler in CF
Youve likely got a rewrite rule passes everything that is not a document to CF
for handling. Im guessing you have a friendly URL setup that routes everything
through index.cfm, which is why the redirect is taking place. Something like
this is probably the culprit:
#These are handled by Apache and not by CF
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(bmp|gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|txt|xls|ico|swf)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [NC,L]
#Everything else is handled by Coldfusion
RewriteRule ^$ index.cfm [QSA,NS]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.cfm/%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L,NS]
If you change the rule for static files to include .aspx, then Apache will
handle that 404 as usual:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.(aspx|bmp|gif|jpe?g|png|css|js|txt|xls|ico|swf)$
HTH,
Jon
On Oct 10, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Russ Michaels r...@michaels.me.uk wrote:
Wouldn't url rewriting be better for this?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 20:46 PM, Robert Glover sled...@gmail.com wrote:
This is as much an Apache question as it is a CF question; I hope this is
acceptable. I posted it to Serverfault several days ago and haven't
gotten any response, and it's become a rather critical issue.
-
I've written a custom 404 handler for Apache. The handler looks at the
incoming URL (cgi.request_url), queries a database table, and responds by
redirecting the visitor to the new URL. What should happen:
www.mysite.co.uk gets redirected to www.mysite.com
That much works fine. But when we get to more complex urls:
www.mysite.co.uk/contact.aspx should go to www.mysite.com/contact/
Something (Apache?) is stripping out the contact.aspx portion of it so I
can't tell where to send the user. In fact, what's happening instead is
contact.aspx is replaced with index.cfm (the name of the 404 handler). No
other variables returned in the CGI scope contain the contact.aspx part of
the url.
Of course, we have the domain to be redirected pointed at this server via
DNS, and configured in Apache, since the simple versions of the URL work
fine.
Is there a configuration setting or something to get it to stop stripping
out the rest of the url? Thanks!
Rob
~|
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