Ohohohoh! Now that sounds promising! Will give that a shot.
On 08/23/2010 01:50 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> Why do you want mod_rewrite at all? Enabling that mod_mime
> directive will let mod_autoindex remap / to /index.html when it exists
> in the virtual filesystem. -- justin
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> 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.GA16785@apache.org%3E
>>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200306.mbox/%3C2147483647.1054772793@[10.0.1.37]%3E
>>>
>>> HTH. -- justin
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:27 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_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 <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
>>>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
>>
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
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Received on 2010-08-23 21:47:20 CEST