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Thread-Topic: [users@httpd] problem configuring mod_rewrite rule
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From: "Boyle Owen" <Owen.Boyle@swx.com>
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Subject: RE: [users@httpd] problem configuring mod_rewrite rule

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Klama [mailto:nosedive@tampabay.rr.com]

>  In answer to your questions you posted
>
>What The User Types: client web site administrators.  This=20
>rewrite will take
>them to a page that is customized to their domain
>
>What The URL Should Change To:  I am not so concerned with=20
>changing the URL.
>If it can be changed, fine, if not, fine. =20

You misunderstand my question - I was looking for an *example*, e.g.

User "banana" types: http://users.mrktechweb.com/
URL becomes: http://users.mrktechweb.com/banana

However, having read the rest of your post, I now understand you don't =
want anything like that... Am I correct in deducing that you want:

- User "banana" types: http://users.mrktechweb.com/
- URL Stays http://users.mrktechweb.com/
- DocRoot changes to /home/users/web/banana/

If so, you have a major misunderstanding of mod_rewrite. It rewrites =
URLs - not filepaths. It turns one URL into another URL so the final =
destination still has to be a URL. But you want to change an internal =
filepath and that is not within the scope of mod_rewrite.

You can only have one DocRoot per VirtualHost so the only way to achieve =
this would be to have a separate VH for each user. The simplest scheme =
would be to run the VHs on high port numbers and use mod_rewrite in =
proxy mode (to hide the VH URLs), e.g.

# Main site VH
Listen ip:80
<VirtualHost ip:80>
	ServerName     users.mrktechweb.com
	RewriteCond    %{REMOTE_USER} banana
	RewriteRule    /(.*)    	http://localhost:8000/ [P]
	RewriteCond    %{REMOTE_USER} mango
	RewriteRule    /(.*)    	http://localhost:8001/ [P]
	...
</VirtualHost>

Listen 127.0.0.1:8000
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8000>
	DocumentRoot /home/users/web/banana
</VirtualHost>

Listen 127.0.0.1:8001
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:8001>
	DocumentRoot /home/users/web/mango
</VirtualHost>

Don't know what you'd do about ProxyPassReverse though...

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20

>My concern is=20
>changing the file
>path to the page that is customized for their domain.  In this=20
>particular
>case I am working on the document root for users.mrktechweb.com is
>/home/users/web/ and this rewrite needs to change that to
>/home/users/web/mrktechweb/ based on RewriteCond REMOTE_USER.  Another
>different domain admin will type in the same URL=20
>users.mrktechweb.com and
>will be taken to his particular directory=20
>/home/users/web/hisdomain/.  I
>will put in a rewrite rule and condition for each domain that=20
>I have on my
>server so each site admin can access their own customized page=20
>in their own
>particular directory beneath the users.mrktechweb.com document root.
>
>Last night I also discovered that the permission error I was=20
>getting was due
>to the fact that the file path was not being rewritten and I=20
>was ending up
>in the same document root /home/users/web/ which did not=20
>contain an index
>file and I do not have directory indexing turned on on this server.
>
>I hope I have explained all of this properly and this will be=20
>useful in your
>response.
>
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@swx.com]=20
>Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:03 AM
>To: users@httpd.apache.org
>Subject: RE: [users@httpd] problem configuring mod_rewrite rule
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Klama [mailto:nosedive@tampabay.rr.com]
>>
>>Owen,
>>I used the rule that you inserted below RewriteRule     /(.*)
>>/mrktechweb/$1/index.htm and changed it to read /(.*)
>>$1/mrktechweb/index.htm and it actually rewrote the url=20
>>correctly in the
>>browser but I still get the error that I do not have=20
>>permission to access /
>>on this server.  Any ideas?
>
>So you have a different problem. I'm still not entirely clear=20
>what you are
>trying to achieve because you haven't given a clear example.=20
>Can you please
>fill in the blanks (note - URLs, not filepaths).
>
>What The User Types:
>
>What The URL Should Change To:
>
>(Give several examples rather than using wildcard variable=20
>strings and so
>on...)
>
>Since you are not using a [P] flag, I guess you are happy with=20
>mod_rewrite
>generating redirects. Therefore the rewritten URL must be=20
>visible from the
>client. So what happens if you bypass mod_rewrite and try to access the
>final URL directly from the client? I guess you get the=20
>"permission" problem
>(BTW, I am assuming you mean a "403 Forbidden" - it would be=20
>helpful if you
>always quote the HTTP status code and its official title instead of
>paraphrasing it).
>
>In that case, the problem is that access to the destination=20
>URL is "Deny"-ed
>somewhere. Check in the error_log for "access denied by server
>configuration"...
>
>Rgds,
>Owen Boyle
>Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20
>
>
>>
>>Mike=20
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@swx.com]=20
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:31 AM
>>To: users@httpd.apache.org
>>Subject: RE: [users@httpd] problem configuring mod_rewrite rule
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Michael Klama [mailto:fvimike@earthlink.net]
>>>
>>>Thank you for your response Owen.  I am in meetings all day=20
>>>long so will not
>>>be able to try this until this evening.  If I am not mistaken,=20
>>>what you are
>>>saying is that this rule will append the original root=20
>>>directory onto the
>>>end of what I am trying to change the directory too.  This is=20
>>>not what I intended. =20
>>
>>I guessed that...=20
>>
>>>What I intended is to take the request which goes=20
>>>to the root
>>>directory of this web and at the point that it reaches that=20
>>>root directory,
>>>is changed to point to a lower directory which is inside the=20
>>>root directory based on the REMOTE_USER condition.
>>
>>Ummm... I'm  a bit lost in the subordinate clauses here (an=20
>>example might be
>>useful...) Usually, you use mod_rewrite to map a simple=20
>>webspace (visible to
>>the client) to a more complicated internal webspace, e.g.
>>
>>	/foobar  --> /mrtechweb/foobar/index.html
>>
>>to do that, use;
>>
>>        RewriteRule     /(.*)   /mrktechweb/$1/index.htm
>>
>>Is this closer to what you had in mind?
>>
>>Rgds,
>>Owen Boyle
>>Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.=20
>>
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Boyle Owen [mailto:Owen.Boyle@swx.com]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:57 AM
>>>To: users@httpd.apache.org
>>>Subject: RE: [users@httpd] problem configuring mod_rewrite rule
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Michael Klama [mailto:nosedive@tampabay.rr.com]
>>>>
>>>>RewriteEngine  on
>>>>RewriteCond    %{REMOTE_USER}  ^mike.*
>>>>RewriteRule    (/*)    /mrktechweb/index.htm$1
>>>
>>>Try:
>>>
>>>        RewriteRule     (/.*)   /mrktechweb/index.htm$1
>>>
>>>It's a subtle difference but mod_rewrite uses regexp, it's=20
>>not Perl ;-)
>>>
>>>By the way, this will rewrite /foo.bar as=20
>/mrktechweb/index.htmfoo.bar
>>>which is a bit funny....
>>>
>>>Rgds,
>>>Owen Boyle
>>>Disclaimer: Any disclaimer attached to this message may be ignored.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) pass through /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] strip per-dir prefix:
>>>>/home/users/web/mrktechweb/index.htm -> mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] applying pattern '(/*)' to uri
>>>>'mrktechweb/index.htm'
>>>>(4) RewriteCond: input=3D'mike' pattern=3D'^mike.*' =3D> matched
>>>>(2) [per-dir /home/users/web/] rewrite mrktechweb/index.htm ->
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) [per-dir /home/users/web/] internal redirect with
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>[INTERNAL REDIRECT]
>>>>(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) pass through /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] strip per-dir prefix:
>>>>/home/users/web/mrktechweb/index.htm -> mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] applying pattern '(/*)' to uri
>>>>'mrktechweb/index.htm'
>>>>(4) RewriteCond: input=3D'mike' pattern=3D'^mike.*' =3D> matched
>>>>(2) [per-dir /home/users/web/] rewrite mrktechweb/index.htm ->
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) [per-dir /home/users/web/] internal redirect with
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>[INTERNAL REDIRECT]
>>>>(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) pass through /mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] strip per-dir prefix:
>>>>/home/users/web/mrktechweb/index.htm -> mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(3) [per-dir /home/users/web/] applying pattern '(/*)' to uri
>>>>'mrktechweb/index.htm'
>>>>(4) RewriteCond: input=3D'mike' pattern=3D'^mike.*' =3D> matched
>>>>(2) [per-dir /home/users/web/] rewrite mrktechweb/index.htm ->
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>(1) [per-dir /home/users/web/] internal redirect with
>>>>/mrktechweb/index.htm
>>>>[INTERNAL REDIRECT]
>>>>
>>>>As you can see this just goes on and on and on.  I gets to the
>>>>point where
>>>>it will completely hang up everything on my server.  Thank you
>>>>to all who
>>>>can help
>>>>
>>>>Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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