Thank you Bob. Adding the following lines in the conf file made it work.
<Directory /var/www/html>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ http://localhost/bob/ravi.html?userid=%{REMOTE_USER} [R,L]
</Directory>
Regards.
On Thu, December 18, 2008 3:19 am, Bob Ionescu wrote:
>> When I use
>> RewriteEngine on
>> RewriteCond %{REMOTE_USER} ^
>
> That RegEx is always true (so you can skip the condition). To check
> for at least one character present, use a '.', i.e.
> %{REMOTE_USER} .
>
> But anyway...
>
>> RewriteRule ^/$ http://localhost/home.seam?userid=%{REMOTE_USER} [L]
>
> That is per-server context (which is a good idea to use) but auth and
> access checks are done on a per-directory basis. That means, that the
> ENV cannot be present in per-server context, i.e. before auth is being
> processed. There are two possible solutions:
>
> Use an URL-based subrequest in per-server context do determine the
> value of that ENV:
> RewriteRule ^/$ http://localhost/home.seam?userid=%{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}
> [R,L]
>
> -or-
> use the rule in per-directory context
>
> <Directory /path/to/docroot>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^$ http://localhost/home.seam?userid=%{REMOTE_USER} [R,L]
> </Directory>
>
> Bob
>
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