Re: Apache 2.4 This webpage has a redirect loop (Apache Users)

Hi Frank,

Your second rule is mostly abusing mod_rewrite - you should use FallbackResource instead, or just add a RewriteCond before the rule to prevent loops in the per directory context.

OK thanks for that suggestion. I'll give FallbackResource a shot! I wasn't actually the one to write these originally. They were originally done on an Apache 2.2 instance. But I have to migrate the config to Apache 2.4

I am curious about how you'd handle this as a RewriteCond tho! Apache rewrites aren't exactly my strongest area. Although I've always wanted to get better at doing them. Do you think you could provide an example of how you could handle that as a rewrite? Id' appreciate it, but no big deal if you don't have the time.

Thanks,

Tim

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Francois Gingras <francois.gingras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Your second rule is mostly abusing mod_rewrite - you should use FallbackResource instead, or just add a RewriteCond before the rule to prevent loops in the per directory context.

Frank

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hey all,

OK so I have a website that's entering a re-direct loop that prevents the site from working.

The site's default behavior is to go from / to site/universalpictures. And from there it enters the redirect loop and stops working.

Here's the vhost for the site in question:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site
ServerName launchpadnew.upqa.com
ServerAlias launchpad2.upqa.com test-launchpad.upqa.com
<Directory /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site>
Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Includes -ExecCGI
#Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews +Includes +ExecCGI
AllowOverride All

Order deny,allow
Deny from all

AuthType Basic
AuthName UPQA
AuthUserFile /var/www/qa/etc/http.passwd
AuthGroupFile /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/conf/groups
require valid-user
satisfy any
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

From there the site encounters an .htaccess file that has the following in it:

php_flag zlib.output_compression off
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off

AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .htm

AddHandler cgi-script .pl
AddHandler php5-script php

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^new$ new_site.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^site/(.*)$ edit_site.php?site=$1 [QSA,L]

The only errors I see in the logs are this one, repeating over and over again:

[Wed Dec 31 11:43:06.174003 2014] [:error] [pid 9053:tid 47022521411904] [client64.210.199.232:64956] PHP Notice: Undefined index: action in /var/www/qa/launchpadnew/site/edit_site_ajax.php on line 43, referer:http://launchpadnew.upqa.com/site/Firstsite

However I'm not sure if that pertains to the error I'm experiencing.

If it's of any use, line 43 from that eror log starts at the switch statement in the following:

//echo "POST:".$_POST['action'];
switch ($_POST['action']) {
case 'deployFiles':

I'd appreciate any advice you may have in correcting this problem!

Thanks,
Tim

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