VirtualHost rewrite and mod_negotiation (Apache Users)

Hello all,

sorry for bother you with issue both I think that I misunderstand how the mod_negotiation and mod_rewrite work is working.

In my apache I have enabled Virtual Host called:

SSLEngine on
DocumentRoot "/opt/apache/htdocs/ssldocs"

AddType text/html .shtml

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE
RewriteRule .* - [F]
RewriteMap unity txt:/opt/apache/conf/unity.map
RewriteRule ^/(common|public)/(.*) /opt/unity/htdocs/$1/$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)$ ${unity:$1|/$1} [L]
RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)/(.*) ${unity:$1|/opt/apache/htdocs/ssldocs/$1}/$2 [L]
RewriteLog "/var/log/apache2/rewrite_log"
RewriteLogLevel 3

<Directory />
    Options +Includes Indexes +MultiViews FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    MultiviewsMatch Any
    SetOutputFilter INCLUDES
</Directory>

In /opt/apache/conf/unity.map is mentioned:

APPL /opt/appl/htdocs

In the directory /opt/appl/htdocs is:

test:/var/log/apache2 # ll /opt/appl/htdocs/index.*
-rw-r----- 1 hg3550m unity 887 Mar 27 10:12 /opt/appl/htdocs/index.shtml.de
-rw-r----- 1 hg3550m unity 893 Mar 27 10:12 /opt/appl/htdocs/index.shtml.en_US
test:/var/log/apache2 #

Unfortunatelly when I go to the page https://localhost/APPL/index.shtml

then it show me in the /var/log/apache2/error_log "Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: /opt/appl/htdocs/index.shtml (None could be negotiated)".

Rewrite Rule is working properly but negotiation is not working well.

When I am inserting following lines to the configuration file:

<Directory "/opt/appl/htdocs">
    Options +Includes +Multiviews
    AuthType TestAuth
    require auth-validation
    Satisfy any
</Directory>

then the negotiation is working.

I thought that all directories under DocumentRoot including RewriteMap has the same setting as <Directory /> flag, right?

Could you please explain me why I am getting error from Negotiation module? Error code which is mentioned in apache is HTTP 404.

Does it mean the for each directory which is not under /opt/apache/htdocs/ssldocs has to be mentioned special directive Directory?

What did I set incorrectly?

Could you please help me what is the proper configuration?

Best regards

Petr

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Ing. Petr Hráček

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