Re: problem with rewrite module (Apache Users)

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 05.05.08 10:40, Nishantha Pradeep wrote:
> I have a server named as nishantha-lsf and it http-polling is running on
> port 5280. I can directly access the http-polling service with the URL
> http://localhost:5280/http-poll. But I want to access it without specifying
> the port number such as
> http://localhost/http-poll. So I used write module's capabilities and I add
> following to my httpd.conf file. Then restarted the apache
>
> <VirtualHost *>
> ServerName nishantha-lsf
> DocumentRoot /var/www/www
> <Directory /var/www/www/chat>
> Options +Indexes +MultiViews
> </Directory>
> AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule http-poll/ http://localhost:5280/http-poll/ [P]
> </VirtualHost>

using redirect instead of rewrite should be enough, however this will only
apply when you enter path containing slash after http-poll which is not what
you described.

> But when I enter the URL http://localhost:5280/http-poll, it says you dont
> have permission to access the http-poll on this server.

do you mean, if you enter it WITHOUT the port name?

> However when I
> specify the port (http://localhost:5280/http-poll/) it allows me to accsess.

you are accessing the HTTP polling service, which not apache IIUC.

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