(This is on Solaris 10-x86 with Apache 2.2.4)
When I give the URL
1) http://www-demo.cchem.berkeley.edu/username/public_html
everything works fine. However, for historical reasons,
I can't require that people give the "/public_html" at
the end of the URL. In other words, I want users to
be able to enter
2) http://www-demo.cchem.berkeley.edu/username/
to see the same results as produced by URL #1 .
So, I decided to try mod_rewrite. I use the following
in the proper VirtualHost section of my httpd.conf file:
RewriteLogLevel 5
RewriteLog "/users/chemweb/apache2/logs/rewrite.log"
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/public_html/ [L]
This doesn't work. The client sees a "403 Forbidden" message.
The apache log says:
"Directory index forbidden by Options directive:
/users/chemweb/apache2/http-cchem/htdocs/username/public_html/"
I don't understand why I'm getting this message when
URL #1 above works.
The rewrite log shows the following (I added the #numbers):
#1 (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /username/
#2 (3) applying pattern '^(.+)$' to uri '/username/'
#3 (2) rewrite '/username/' -> '/username//public_html/'
#4 (2) local path result: /username//public_html/
#5 (2) prefixed with document_root to
/users/chemweb/apache2/http-cchem/htdocs/username/public_html/
#6 (1) go-ahead with
/users/chemweb/apache2/http-cchem/htdocs/username/public_html/ [OK]
#7 (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /username/index.html
#8 (3) applying pattern '^(.+)$' to uri '/username/index.html'
#9 (2) rewrite '/username/index.html' -> '/username/index.html/public_html/'
#10 (2) local path result: /username/index.html/public_html/
#11 (2) prefixed with document_root to
/users/chemweb/apache2/http-cchem/htdocs/username/index.html/public_html/
#12 (1) go-ahead with
/users/chemweb/apache2/http-cchem/htdocs/username/index.html/public_html/
[OK]
Line #6 above looks correct to me so I don't understand why mod_rewrite
tried the other possibilities.
I'm guessing all these problem have something to do with directory
protection but if this is true then I don't understand why URL #1
works.
Any ideas?
Cordially,
--
Jon Forrest
Unix Computing Support
College of Chemistry
173 Tan Hall
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
94720-1460
510-643-1032
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