Background 1: In my main public_html .htaccess, I have the following: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/invalid.html RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !.*W3C_Validator.* RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f RewriteCond /var/tmp/validator/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.isbroken !-fRewriteRule .*\.html http://validator.gushi.org/stub?uri=http://%{SERVER_NAME}%{REQUEST_URI}&path=%{REQUEST_FILENAME} [L]
</IfModule>What this does, in essence, is forces the wc3 validator to run on any directly-requested file. It's pretty cool, actually, and uses only filesystem metrics to ensure that a file has been validated (or that it's been marked as broken, for debugging), so you need only the stat(2) function to check, which is pretty fast.
Background part 2:In another directory, I have a HOWTO that I've written about PGP keys. It uses mod_include to #include file=header.html and footer.html (the file was generated with markdown, so it lacks those bits).
(if you care, www.gushi.org/make-dns-cert/HOWTO.html) With me so far? Good. Now for the problem, and how I worked around it.Under apache 1.3, the #include file="header.html" would not have been subject to the above rewrite rules. By default in 2.2 it is.
I've figured out that I can add the "RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} false" to this, and it fixes this problem. I could also put [NS] in that rule to fix it.
What I couldn't find anywhere is: what would I put in a RewriteRule that would basically say "Don't Rewrite!". I can set RewriteEngine Off, but that seems like a sledgehammer.
I.e. how would I disable the "RewriteRule .*\.html"in the parent directory and say "no, in this case just use the literal file we're being asked for." Put another way, how would I say "NoRewriteRule .*\.html"?
Another observation here would be: Apache didn't at all log the subrequest to the access/error logs, or the output of the CGI. The ONLY error I got was:
[Fri Aug 03 18:10:21 2012] [error] [client 149.20.50.7] unable to include "footer.html" in parsed file /home/danm/public_html/make-dns-cert/HOWTO.html
Which was spectacularly unhelpful. -- --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org --------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx