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[Bart]

i'm having trouble with apache 2.2 and mod_rewrite. i have the following .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
#RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.html$ index.php?action=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.htm$ bla.html [L]

(the first line is what i eventually want, the second is what i currently use for testing)

when i request x.htm, the server returns error 400 (bad request). i can't explain why. in any case it's somewhere in the server, i am sure the rewrite rule is ok. the file bla.html exists and is accesible trough the normal url.
it works when i replace bla.html with it's absolute path (/bure/MDD/src/bla.html), but i don't want that

note that this .htaccess file is in an alias. it works fine from the documentroot

apache logs:

access.log

127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] "GET /buro/MDD/src/x.htm HTTP/1.1" 400 226
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 209
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 209
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 209

error.log

Starting the Apache2.2 service
The Apache2.2 service is running.
rmine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 10.8.0.2 for ServerName
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:54 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.8 (Win32) PHP/5.2.5 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:54 2008] [notice] Server built: Jan 18 2008 00:37:19
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:54 2008] [notice] Parent: Created child process 5932
httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 10.8.0.2 for ServerName
httpd.exe: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 10.8.0.2 for ServerName
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [notice] Child 5932: Child process is running
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [notice] Child 5932: Acquired the start mutex.
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [notice] Child 5932: Starting 64 worker threads.
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [notice] Child 5932: Starting thread to listen on port 80.
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid URI in request GET /buro/MDD/src/x.htm HTTP/1.1
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/software/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/software/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico
[Mon Jan 21 21:05:57 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/software/apache/htdocs/favicon.ico

rewrite.log

127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] [localhost/sid#6f5148][rid#f83300/initial] (3) [perdir D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/x.htm -> x.htm
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] [localhost/sid#6f5148][rid#f83300/initial] (3) [perdir D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/] applying pattern '^(.*)?\.htm$' to uri 'x.htm'
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] [localhost/sid#6f5148][rid#f83300/initial] (2) [perdir D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/] rewrite 'x.htm' -> 'bla.html'
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] [localhost/sid#6f5148][rid#f83300/initial] (3) [perdir D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/] add per-dir prefix: bla.html -> D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/bla.html
127.0.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2008:21:05:57 +0100] [localhost/sid#6f5148][rid#f83300/initial] (1) [perdir D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/] internal redirect with D:/School/Buro 302/Workspace/MDD/src/bla.html [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

help

[Clement]

RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.htm$ bla.html [L]

Shouldn't be:

RewriteRule ^(.*)?\.htm$ /bla.html [L]

?

[Phil]

Just tried out your rewrite and it works fine (Apache/2.2.4). Are you sure you have no further rewrites in place?

[Bart]

As it turns out, the problem was that I was running the application in an alias (a suburl on server which points to a different directory in the filesystem). Therefore I needed to add a "RewriteBase /location/of/script". I tried putting it in the <Directory> specification in the server configuration, so it could stay away from the .htaccess and keep my app portable. Unfortunately that's not possible.

So now I put it in the .htaccess and promoted that file to something that should be edited for each installation of the site.

@TDP: No there shouldn't be a slash, because that would make it absolute. So you'd request http://server/mystuff/blablabla.htm, the redirect would be to http://server/bla.html