Hi,

I have some RewriteCond to check if a given file within a directory
exists. Both file and directory can be inexistant.

The rule is:

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/rfiles/${NodesToCluster:%{REMOTE_HOST}|default}/$1 -f
RewriteRule ^/files/(.*)$ /rfiles/${NodesToClusters:%{REMOTE_HOST}|default}/$1 [L]

Where the NodesToCluster is a map.

If I have something like:

/rfiles/mycluster/myfile

and someone mapping to mycluster is requesting /files/myfile, all is ok.
If I remove the 'myfile' from the directory, I get this error:
File does not exist: /var/www/html/rfiles/mycluster/myfile

I think that the RewriteCond should return false in that case... But the
strange thing is that if I use something like:

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/rfiles/${NodesToCluster:%{REMOTE_HOST}|default}/foo/$1 -f
^^^^^
It will not complain about foo not being there, it will return false and
work as expected.

I am reading and reading the docs, but I really don't understand how
these tests are working.

Marc

* marc.poulhi-NO-es-SPAM@epfl.ch wrote:

> I am reading and reading the docs, but I really don't understand how
> these tests are working.

First rule: setup the rewrite log (level 9) and look what's happening (i.e.
post it here).

nd

André Malo <auch-ich-m@g-kein-spam.com> writes:

> * marc.poulhi-NO-es-SPAM@epfl.ch wrote:
>
>> I am reading and reading the docs, but I really don't understand how
>> these tests are working.
>
> First rule: setup the rewrite log (level 9) and look what's happening (i.e.
> post it here).

Hi,

Last time I asked for , I promised myself to double/triple check I
really can't understand the problem. I reread my config a thousand times
this morning for being sure that was something I don't
understand. Finally, after looking at the logs, I saw something really
strange, and found that I made a small typo in the config (missing 's'
at the end of NodesToClusters)... This was making the Cond true, but as
the Rule was getting a different result from the map, this was not
working correctly.

Sorry for this message as this was not a problem from mod_rewrite!
(it could complain when you try to use an undefined map...)

Marc