On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mark Montague <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On November 10, 2011 14:41 , Nick Tkach <ntkach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Been Googling all over >> trying to find details on any consequences/side-effects of using >> mod_rewrite to redirect secure urls to other secure urls on the same >> site. Something like >> >> RewriteRule ^https://mycom.com/specialsale >> https://mycom.com/content/some/url/page.html >> >> >> First of all, does that even make sense? I'm a little fuzzy on the >> precise technical details of how SSL connections and http headers >> "mix". > > You're complicating things too much. In your HTTPS virtual host stanza in > your web server configuration file, just put > > RewriteRule ^/specialsale$ /content/some/url/page.html > > The pattern for RewriteRule (the first argument) matches based on the URL > path, not the URL. The substitution for the RewriteRule (the second > argument) can be a URL path, too, unless you need to redirect to a different > site. > > Unless you're doing something fancy, the fact that you are redirecting a > HTTPS URL or that you are redirecting to another HTTPS URL are irrelevant. > There are no consequences or side effects that I am aware of. And HTTP > headers are generally independent of whether the connection is secured using > TLS/SSL or not. > Thanks, that's what I figured. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. :) > Where mod_rewrite becomes confusing is that when you use RewriteRule in a > .htaccess file or Directory context, the pattern gets matched against the > filesystem path with some prefix removed, not the URL path. You can avoid > this by putting your RewriteRules in virtual host or Location contexts. Or, > even better, if you don't need the power of mod_rewrite, use the Redirect > and RedirectMatch directives instead, since these always use the URL path. > >> Second, we've seen that at least sometimes that seems to generate a >> big spike in CPU usage "all of a sudden" once it goes live. > > What seems to generate a big spike in CPU usage? When what goes live? When the Apache HTTPD process gets started with a rewrite like that I meant. I think that was unrelated though. > -- > Mark Montague > mark@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Thanks for the help! :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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