Hrm. I'm not seeing the connection here. I'm looking for a way to pull off a Rewrite condition based on the existence of a given URI. The docs imply that this can be done with "RewriteCond SOME_URI -U", but appear to just be wrong -- the existence of SOME_URI doesn't appear to tested at all, only it's accessibility (from an authn/authz standpoint).
On 08/20/2010 12:51 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > Based on what you describe, I think this is likely what you are looking for: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_mime.html#modmimeusepathinfo > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200209.mbox/%3c20020904211343.ga16...@apache.org%3e > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200306.mbox/%3c2147483647.1054772...@[10.0.1.37]%3e > > HTH. -- justin > > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> > wrote: >> [Warning: This matter is far from highly pertinent. One tackles strange >> non-problems when in an atypical environment, such as a hotel room in CA.] >> >> I had someone ask me about Subversion autoindex support. So, like, you >> point a web browser at >> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/publish/ and *pow* magically >> you are now looking at the index.html inside that directory. >> >> Clearly, this could be done with an hour or two of mod_dav_svn hackery and >> some new directives there. But I was trying to come up with an httpd.conf >> workaround that did the trick. Here's what I tried. (On my system, all my >> Subversion repositories live inside the /repos/ Location.) >> >> # If this is a GET request (but not a subrequest) aimed at my >> # collection of Subversion repositories and with a trailing slash, and >> # if there exists an index.html file inside that directory, then >> # temporarily redirect the browser to the index.html file. >> RewriteEngine on >> RewriteCond %{IS_SUBREQ} false >> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} GET >> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/repos/.*/$ >> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}index.html -U >> RewriteRule /repos/(.*)/$ /repos/$1/index.html [L,R] >> >> The result was that for every directory in which an index.html was found, >> that file was served (via a browser redirect). Yay! Unfortunately, the >> redirect was transmitted for directories which had no index.html child, too. >> Boo! >> >> Sadly, I found that despite the fact that the Apache docs say about that >> "-U" test the following: >> >> '-U' (is existing URL, via subrequest) >> Checks whether or not TestString is a valid URL, accessible via all >> the server's currently-configured access controls for that path. This >> uses an internal subrequest to do the check, so use it with care - it >> can impact your server's performance! >> >> In reality "validity" in this context seems to have nothing to do with >> "existence". I traced the subrequest that mod_rewrite made into Subversion, >> and found that it never enters mod_dav to actually perform an existence get. >> I guess I expected that the subrequest would GET all the way into >> Subversion, where it would get the appropriate error code (HTTP_NOT_FOUND). >> In retrospect, I think I knew that subrequests don't behavior like >> full-fledged content-fetching requests. But the documentation quoted above >> is pretty misleading, at any rate, IMO. >> >> -- >> C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> >> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand >> -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
