What you have looks reasonable, PT should be URL-to-URL. You might try logging %f in your logformat. What kind of handler is meant to handle these requests and how is it configured? On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 10:24 AM Dave Wreski <dwreski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.invalid> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to use RewriteMap on a few thousand older articles to map them to their modern equivalent. The pattern matches, but then the redirect doesn't occur. The examples and apache docs say I should be using [PT] to pass-through, but it results in a 404: > > [Thu Mar 07 09:56:47.696040 2024] [rewrite:trace5] [pid 95091:tid 95121] mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.195.111.33:0] 68.195.111.33 - - [linuxsecurity.com/sid#5590c7db70c8] > [rid#7f02f4016480/initial] map lookup OK: map=lsv2ids[txt] key=161567 -> val=/news/hackscracks/historic-hacker-attack-on-ebay-happened-3-months-ago > > [Thu Mar 07 09:56:47.696125 2024] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 95091:tid 95121] mod_rewrite.c(493): [client 68.195.111.33:0] 68.195.111.33 - - [linuxsecurity.com/sid#5590c7db70c8] > [rid#7f02f4016480/initial] rewrite '/content/view/161567' -> '/news/hackscracks/historic-hacker-attack-on-ebay-happened-3-months-ago' > > I have the following in the main VirtualHost section of my apache config for this domain: > > RewriteMap lsv2ids "txt:/etc/httpd/conf.d/linuxsecurity-lsv2ids.map" > RewriteRule "/content/view/(.*)" "${lsv2ids:$1}" [PT] > > My map file simply contains this line: > > 161567 /news/hackscracks/historic-hacker-attack-on-ebay-happened-3-months-ago > > This is a valid URL appearing as a 404: > > 68.195.111.33 - - [07/Mar/2024:10:13:59 -0500] "GET /content/view/161567 HTTP/1.1" 404 2983 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/122.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" X:"SAMEORIGIN" 1/1161742 1802/11477/2983 H:HTTP/1.1 U:/news/hackscracks/historic-hacker-attack-on-ebay-happened-3-months-ago > > If I replace [PT] with [L,R=301] it successfully loads the destination link, but I'm concerned I may be creating an additional redirect. What's the proper way to do this in my case? > > -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx