Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2014-01-02 Thread Fred Miller
Please take me off this email list. I've already unsubscribed. On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Good evening, List, > > I apologise for not responding. It's been a busy December and I haven't had > time to fight with httpd. In response to some comments: > > On Sat, Nov 30

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-12-30 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good evening, List, I apologise for not responding. It's been a busy December and I haven't had time to fight with httpd. In response to some comments: On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Eric Covener wrote: > You can do that with just Alias if there's no dynamic part. I may just end up doing thi

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-12-02 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Eric Covener wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: >> Assuming that the above steps accurately represent the exchange >> between Ff and httpd, am I to understand that there's no way to tell >> httpd in a .htaccess file at step 3 that a re

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-30 Thread Eric Covener
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Thank you, Tom, for your response and explanation. > > My understanding of the HTTP is pretty simple. I'm doing some research > on the protocol as the second part of your answer is somewhat over my > head. I follow (I think) that httpd consid

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-29 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you, Tom, for your response and explanation. My understanding of the HTTP is pretty simple. I'm doing some research on the protocol as the second part of your answer is somewhat over my head. I follow (I think) that httpd considers each request separately to any other request (so, if httpd r

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Good evening, > > I thought that I had worded my question clearly. Is there something > wrong with how I've asked my question or that I'm asking for something > very unusual? > > I'll do my best to give you all of the information you need: >

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-26 Thread Borden Rhodes
I apologise profusely for the noise, but I didn't proofread carefully enough. In paragraph 4, I write However, for various reasons, some images on the Drupal website are hardlinked to "/sites/default/files/images/..." This works fine on the public server, but on my local server, it's trying to fet

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-26 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good evening, I thought that I had worded my question clearly. Is there something wrong with how I've asked my question or that I'm asking for something very unusual? I'll do my best to give you all of the information you need: I've copied a Drupal 6 website from a public webserver into my own w

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Thank you for your response, Tom, > > You are correct in that I don't expect the server to alter the HTML > output. I want to tell the server to fetch a file at an arbitrary path > if it receives a request for an absolute URL. So, for exampl

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-24 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for your response, Tom, You are correct in that I don't expect the server to alter the HTML output. I want to tell the server to fetch a file at an arbitrary path if it receives a request for an absolute URL. So, for example, say I have , I want to use a a rule in an .htaccess file to f

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-20 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Good morning, list, > > After about 7 hours of struggling with this issue, I can't seem to > find out how to trace the cause of this issue: > > I am trying to rewrite absolute URLs using a .htaccess file on my > computer being served from lo

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for your response. Indeed, I stumbled upon that .htaccess rule in my reading. Even if the prefix was stripped, shouldn't the modified link still have appeared in the matching cascade? I carefully reviewed error.log, which didn't even show the prefix getting stripped from the /links. Also

Re: [users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-19 Thread Eric Covener
RewriteRule in htaccess strips the prefix used to get to the htaccess files directory. What you compare to will never begin with /. This should have been traced. On Nov 19, 2013 6:06 AM, "Borden Rhodes" wrote: > Good morning, list, > > After about 7 hours of struggling with this issue, I can't se

[users@httpd] Curious inability to mod_rewrite absolute paths

2013-11-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
Good morning, list, After about 7 hours of struggling with this issue, I can't seem to find out how to trace the cause of this issue: I am trying to rewrite absolute URLs using a .htaccess file on my computer being served from localhost. I have succeeded in the following: Using, say, an HTML file