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From: "Robert Andersson" <robert@profundis.nu>
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 11:48:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] addhandler changes between Apache 1.3 and 2.0

Alois Treindl wrote:
> # in Apache 2.0, the Addhandler directive does not work to give .htm
> # requests to xa.cgi if the requested file is missing.
> # for this case, we use this extra redirect
> RewriteCond /www/docs/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.htm$
> RewriteCond /www/docs/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteRule /(.*) /cgi/xa.cgi/$1 [L,R]
>
> If I leave the  [R] flag out, the redirect is done to
> /www/docs/cgi/xa.cgi
> which of course does not work, as the /cgi/ directory is not within
> the documents directory /www/docs

As long as you have the [R] flag, the user *will* se the rewritten URI, so
you'll need a way to get rid of it.

I have not utilized mod_rewrite in that way, but the docs suggests that the
substitution can be a real filesystem path, so you might be able to just do:

    RewriteRule /(.*) /path/to/cgi/xa.cgi/$1 [L]

I'm asuming /cgi is an alias of some sort, so as indicated by the docs:

    "'passthrough|PT' (pass through to next handler)
     This flag forces the rewriting engine to set the uri field of the
internal
     request_rec structure to the value of the filename field. This flag is
     just a hack to be able to post-process the output of RewriteRule
     directives by Alias, ScriptAlias, Redirect, etc. directives from other
     URI-to-filename translators. [...]"

Replacing [R] with [PT] might do the trick also, and seems preferable.

Regards,
Robert Andersson


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