Hi All!
I'll try to make this as short as I can, but I need some assistance in
understanding the Apache processing flow. I am using Apache 2.2
I have a requirement to disable access to a certain context (say, /xyz) for
users of Firefox. From what I can gather the best way to do this is using
mod_rewrite and a RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}. I also had a proxypass in
place for this context and found that no matter where I placed my RewriteRule
the proxy always seemed to occur. This leads me to believe that proxypass takes
precedence over RewriteRule, can you confirm this? So, I ended up with this
configuration:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Firefox
RewriteRule ^xyz error/go_away.html [L] # Message displayed from
DOCUMENT_ROOT/error/go_away.html
RewriteRule ^xyz(.*)$ http://targetserver/xyz$1 [P]
I also have a ProxypassReverse outside of the directory block to handle
redirects.
In the end I got this to work by including it in the 'Document Root' Directory
block. However, I'd like to understand why when I placed it outside of this
Directory block it would seem to be ignored. I would get an error when
accessing the URL that this URL was not found on the server. From some research
I was to believe that mod_rewrite generally hooks itself early into the process
so I would think that a server-level directive would be processed pretty much
before anything else. Why does it act like the rules don't even exist if placed
outside of the directory block?
Thanks
-Kimmel
