Re: [users@httpd] proxypass ignore case issue

[Nick Ascione <nick.ascione@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rainer.

The mod_speling works great. However I have a new interesting problem

In my vhost I have

proxypass /somedir  /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir
proxypassreverse /somedir  /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir

The above works fine and mod_speling catches any weird way that somedir 
can be written.

But...
Since I need this server to also proxy requests to / for 
www.somedomain.com when I put in

proxypass /  http://www.somedomain.com
proxypassreverse /  /http://www.somedomain.com/somedir

the mod_speling no longer works. It seems to only process only if none 
of the proxypass rules match
and since the rule for / matches http://www.somedomain.com/SoMeDir 
mod_speling does not kick in.

Do you know of a way around this?

Thanks,
Nick









Rainer Perske wrote:
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> Nick Ascione schrieb am 2006-09-20:
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>   
> > [reverse proxy for <http://www.somedomain.com/somedir> is configured]
> > [creating a local directory .../htdocs/somedir triggers mod_speling]
> > [so that that .../SoMeDir gets redirected to .../somedir]
> >     
>
>   
> > With mod_speling, that only appears to work if the directory is on
> > the local machine?
> >     
>
> correct.
>
>   
> > What about in the case of a reverse proxy?
> >     
>
> When a user goes to <http://www.somedomain.com/SoMeDir> there is no
> need for a reverse proxy. mod_speling returns a Redirect because it
> finds the local dummy directory "somedir" in the local "htdocs"
> directory.
>
> When the browser follows the redirect, i.e. when it sends a new request
> to <http://www.somedomain.com/somedir>, your existent reverse proxy
> configuration entry is regarded, thus the server does not even look
> at/into the dummy directory now.
>
> I.e. the server will never serve any contents of the dummy directory.
>
> (It does not even matter whether "somedir" is a directory or a file or
> a symlink or something else: only the pure entry of the name in the
> htdocs directory is regarded by mod_speling. I myself use "ln -sf
> Redirect .../htdocs/somedir" to create a dangling symbolic link for
> this purpose.)
>
> HTH
> - -- 
> Rainer Perske, Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung, Universität Münster
> Lesetipp: <http://www.textkritik.de/schriftundcharakter/sundc008tofu.htm>
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