On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Evan Champion <evanc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone advise of the order in which <Proxy> statements matching the > same URL are matched? > > I am using SetEnvIf to set a variable that is saved later in the > access_log. Sometimes there is a more specific match and a less > specific match for the same URL, e.g.: > > <Proxy http://server1.example.com/*> > SetEnvIf Server_Addr . VAR=first > Allow from all > </Proxy> > > <Proxy http://*.example.com/*> > SetEnvIf Server_Addr . VAR=second > Allow from all > </Proxy> > > My observation is that the matches are done in reverse order of > appearance in the configuration, i.e. in this example, a request to > http://server.example.com/ will match the http://*.example.com/* rule > and the variable will be set to "second". Is it generally correct that > matches are in reverse order of appearance in the configuration? > I assume in your example you meant "server1.example.com" so both sections match. The sections are merged in the same order as they appear in the config file -- later matching sections override earlier ones. <Proxy> doesn't behave like <Directory> in that it doesn't care about processing "shorter" matches earlier (or regexes later) -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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