| Subject: | RewriteRule recurses in spite of [L] |
| Posted by: | Kaz Kylheku (k…@kylheku.com) |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Sep 2011 |
A long time ago, in my <Directory /> node, I created this rewrite
condition and rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/var/www/
RewriteRule ^(.*) /var/www/$1 [L]
If I remove the RewriteCond, in spite of the [L], there is an
infinite rewrite loop, leading to a server error for all pages
which rely on this rule.
I just temporarily reproduced this, obtaining the rewrite log entries
such as this one, for the favicon.ico:
192.168.1.141 - - [17/Sep/2011:11:00:41 --0700]
[www.kylheku.com/sid#8bb6f8][rid#d3bba8/initial/redir#10] (1) [perdir /]
internal redirect with
/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/var/www/favicon.ico
[INTERNAL REDIRECT]
I don't understand why Apache is repeatedly adding the /var/www prefix,
when the rule has a clear [L] in it.
Doesn't [L] mean: apply the rule, and then stop processing rewrite
rules, (including that rule itself)?