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

2014-01-08 Thread Pete Houston
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:45:27AM -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: > I understand from the docs that Alias directives can't be used in .htaccess > files. Is this correct? This inability is partly why I kept struggling with > RewriteRules - the other was to force myself to practise regexes and advance

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

2014-01-05 Thread Borden Rhodes
> Because the absolute path does not go anywhere near the "dummy" > directory which is where your .htaccess file is, so the .htaccess file > never gets read for that request. Aaaa. OK. Thanks! That clarifies a *lot* of things - and makes perfect sense, too. It seems that I somehow got into

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

2014-01-02 Thread Pete Houston
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 09:55:48PM -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: > I notice in the log that httpd passes the requests for the first two images > through RewriteRule in the .htaccess file. However, the call to fetch > /images/bowler.jpeg *doesn't* go through the RewriteRule, but instead (line > 50

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

2014-01-01 Thread Borden Rhodes
Happy New Year, all! Perhaps phrasing my question using this demonstration will make my problem clearer: I set up a dummy website on my server under a "dummy" folder. Therefore, from Firefox, to the dummy, I go to "http://localhost/dummy/";. dummy/index.html says: # Begin index.html Dum