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diff --git a/rubbos/app/apache2/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html.en b/rubbos/app/apache2/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html.en deleted file mode 100644 index 733f48bd..00000000 --- a/rubbos/app/apache2/manual/misc/rewriteguide.html.en +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2110 +0,0 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT - XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - --> -<title>URL Rewriting Guide - Apache HTTP Server</title> -<link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> -<link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> -<link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /> -<link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> -<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> -<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> -<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p> -<img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div> -<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> -<div id="path"> -<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.0</a> > <a href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>URL Rewriting Guide</h1> -<div class="toplang"> -<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/misc/rewriteguide.html" title="English"> en </a> | -<a href="../ko/misc/rewriteguide.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> -</div> - - <div class="note"> - <p>Originally written by<br /> - <cite>Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@apache.org></cite><br /> - December 1997</p> - </div> - - <p>This document supplements the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> - <a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">reference documentation</a>. - It describes how one can use Apache's <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> - to solve typical URL-based problems with which webmasters are - commonony confronted. We give detailed descriptions on how to - solve each problem by configuring URL rewriting rulesets.</p> - - </div> -<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#ToC1">Introduction to <code>mod_rewrite</code></a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#ToC2">Practical Solutions</a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#url">URL Layout</a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#content">Content Handling</a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#access">Access Restriction</a></li> -<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#other">Other</a></li> -</ul></div> -<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="ToC1" id="ToC1">Introduction to <code>mod_rewrite</code></a></h2> - - - - <p>The Apache module <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> is a killer - one, i.e. it is a really sophisticated module which provides - a powerful way to do URL manipulations. With it you can do nearly - all types of URL manipulations you ever dreamed about. - The price you have to pay is to accept complexity, because - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>'s major drawback is that it is - not easy to understand and use for the beginner. And even - Apache experts sometimes discover new aspects where - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> can help.</p> - - <p>In other words: With <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> you either - shoot yourself in the foot the first time and never use it again - or love it for the rest of your life because of its power. - This paper tries to give you a few initial success events to - avoid the first case by presenting already invented solutions - to you.</p> - - </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="ToC2" id="ToC2">Practical Solutions</a></h2> - - - - <p>Here come a lot of practical solutions I've either invented - myself or collected from other people's solutions in the past. - Feel free to learn the black magic of URL rewriting from - these examples.</p> - - <div class="warning">ATTENTION: Depending on your server-configuration - it can be necessary to slightly change the examples for your - situation, e.g. adding the <code>[PT]</code> flag when - additionally using <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html">mod_alias</a></code> and - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_userdir.html">mod_userdir</a></code>, etc. Or rewriting a ruleset - to fit in <code>.htaccess</code> context instead - of per-server context. Always try to understand what a - particular ruleset really does before you use it. It - avoid problems.</div> - - </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="url" id="url">URL Layout</a></h2> - - - - <h3>Canonical URLs</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>On some webservers there are more than one URL for a - resource. Usually there are canonical URLs (which should be - actually used and distributed) and those which are just - shortcuts, internal ones, etc. Independent of which URL the - user supplied with the request he should finally see the - canonical one only.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We do an external HTTP redirect for all non-canonical - URLs to fix them in the location view of the Browser and - for all subsequent requests. In the example ruleset below - we replace <code>/~user</code> by the canonical - <code>/u/user</code> and fix a missing trailing slash for - <code>/u/user</code>.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^/<strong>~</strong>([^/]+)/?(.*) /<strong>u</strong>/$1/$2 [<strong>R</strong>] -RewriteRule ^/([uge])/(<strong>[^/]+</strong>)$ /$1/$2<strong>/</strong> [<strong>R</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Canonical Hostnames</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd>The goal of this rule is to force the use of a particular - hostname, in preference to other hostnames which may be used to - reach the same site. For example, if you wish to force the use - of <strong>www.example.com</strong> instead of - <strong>example.com</strong>, you might use a variant of the - following recipe.</dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> -<div class="example"><pre> -# For sites running on a port other than 80 -RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC] -RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ -RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^80$ -RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com:%{SERVER_PORT}/$1 [L,R] - -# And for a site running on port 80 -RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.example\.com [NC] -RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ -RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [L,R] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Moved <code>DocumentRoot</code></h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Usually the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> - of the webserver directly relates to the URL "<code>/</code>". - But often this data is not really of top-level priority, it is - perhaps just one entity of a lot of data pools. For instance at - our Intranet sites there are <code>/e/www/</code> - (the homepage for WWW), <code>/e/sww/</code> (the homepage for - the Intranet) etc. Now because the data of the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> stays at <code>/e/www/</code> we had - to make sure that all inlined images and other stuff inside this - data pool work for subsequent requests.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We redirect the URL <code>/</code> to - <code>/e/www/</code>: - </p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteRule <strong>^/$</strong> /e/www/ [<strong>R</strong>] -</pre></div> - - <p>Note that this can also be handled using the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirectmatch">RedirectMatch</a></code> directive:</p> - - <div class="example"><p><code> - RedirectMatch ^/$ http://example.com/e/www/ - </code></p></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Trailing Slash Problem</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Every webmaster can sing a song about the problem of - the trailing slash on URLs referencing directories. If they - are missing, the server dumps an error, because if you say - <code>/~quux/foo</code> instead of <code>/~quux/foo/</code> - then the server searches for a <em>file</em> named - <code>foo</code>. And because this file is a directory it - complains. Actually it tries to fix it itself in most of - the cases, but sometimes this mechanism need to be emulated - by you. For instance after you have done a lot of - complicated URL rewritings to CGI scripts etc.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The solution to this subtle problem is to let the server - add the trailing slash automatically. To do this - correctly we have to use an external redirect, so the - browser correctly requests subsequent images etc. If we - only did a internal rewrite, this would only work for the - directory page, but would go wrong when any images are - included into this page with relative URLs, because the - browser would request an in-lined object. For instance, a - request for <code>image.gif</code> in - <code>/~quux/foo/index.html</code> would become - <code>/~quux/image.gif</code> without the external - redirect!</p> - - <p>So, to do this trick we write:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^foo<strong>$</strong> foo<strong>/</strong> [<strong>R</strong>] -</pre></div> - - <p>The crazy and lazy can even do the following in the - top-level <code>.htaccess</code> file of their homedir. - But notice that this creates some processing - overhead.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>-d</strong> -RewriteRule ^(.+<strong>[^/]</strong>)$ $1<strong>/</strong> [R] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Webcluster through Homogeneous URL Layout</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We want to create a homogeneous and consistent URL - layout over all WWW servers on a Intranet webcluster, i.e. - all URLs (per definition server local and thus server - dependent!) become actually server <em>independent</em>! - What we want is to give the WWW namespace a consistent - server-independent layout: no URL should have to include - any physically correct target server. The cluster itself - should drive us automatically to the physical target - host.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>First, the knowledge of the target servers come from - (distributed) external maps which contain information - where our users, groups and entities stay. The have the - form</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -user1 server_of_user1 -user2 server_of_user2 -: : -</pre></div> - - <p>We put them into files <code>map.xxx-to-host</code>. - Second we need to instruct all servers to redirect URLs - of the forms</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -/u/user/anypath -/g/group/anypath -/e/entity/anypath -</pre></div> - - <p>to</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -http://physical-host/u/user/anypath -http://physical-host/g/group/anypath -http://physical-host/e/entity/anypath -</pre></div> - - <p>when the URL is not locally valid to a server. The - following ruleset does this for us by the help of the map - files (assuming that server0 is a default server which - will be used if a user has no entry in the map):</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on - -RewriteMap user-to-host txt:/path/to/map.user-to-host -RewriteMap group-to-host txt:/path/to/map.group-to-host -RewriteMap entity-to-host txt:/path/to/map.entity-to-host - -RewriteRule ^/u/<strong>([^/]+)</strong>/?(.*) http://<strong>${user-to-host:$1|server0}</strong>/u/$1/$2 -RewriteRule ^/g/<strong>([^/]+)</strong>/?(.*) http://<strong>${group-to-host:$1|server0}</strong>/g/$1/$2 -RewriteRule ^/e/<strong>([^/]+)</strong>/?(.*) http://<strong>${entity-to-host:$1|server0}</strong>/e/$1/$2 - -RewriteRule ^/([uge])/([^/]+)/?$ /$1/$2/.www/ -RewriteRule ^/([uge])/([^/]+)/([^.]+.+) /$1/$2/.www/$3\ -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Move Homedirs to Different Webserver</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Many webmasters have asked for a solution to the - following situation: They wanted to redirect just all - homedirs on a webserver to another webserver. They usually - need such things when establishing a newer webserver which - will replace the old one over time.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The solution is trivial with <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>. - On the old webserver we just redirect all - <code>/~user/anypath</code> URLs to - <code>http://newserver/~user/anypath</code>.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteRule ^/~(.+) http://<strong>newserver</strong>/~$1 [R,L] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Structured Homedirs</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Some sites with thousands of users usually use a - structured homedir layout, i.e. each homedir is in a - subdirectory which begins for instance with the first - character of the username. So, <code>/~foo/anypath</code> - is <code>/home/<strong>f</strong>/foo/.www/anypath</code> - while <code>/~bar/anypath</code> is - <code>/home/<strong>b</strong>/bar/.www/anypath</code>.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We use the following ruleset to expand the tilde URLs - into exactly the above layout.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteRule ^/~(<strong>([a-z])</strong>[a-z0-9]+)(.*) /home/<strong>$2</strong>/$1/.www$3 -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Filesystem Reorganization</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>This really is a hardcore example: a killer application - which heavily uses per-directory - <code>RewriteRules</code> to get a smooth look and feel - on the Web while its data structure is never touched or - adjusted. Background: <strong><em>net.sw</em></strong> is - my archive of freely available Unix software packages, - which I started to collect in 1992. It is both my hobby - and job to to this, because while I'm studying computer - science I have also worked for many years as a system and - network administrator in my spare time. Every week I need - some sort of software so I created a deep hierarchy of - directories where I stored the packages:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -drwxrwxr-x 2 netsw users 512 Aug 3 18:39 Audio/ -drwxrwxr-x 2 netsw users 512 Jul 9 14:37 Benchmark/ -drwxrwxr-x 12 netsw users 512 Jul 9 00:34 Crypto/ -drwxrwxr-x 5 netsw users 512 Jul 9 00:41 Database/ -drwxrwxr-x 4 netsw users 512 Jul 30 19:25 Dicts/ -drwxrwxr-x 10 netsw users 512 Jul 9 01:54 Graphic/ -drwxrwxr-x 5 netsw users 512 Jul 9 01:58 Hackers/ -drwxrwxr-x 8 netsw users 512 Jul 9 03:19 InfoSys/ -drwxrwxr-x 3 netsw users 512 Jul 9 03:21 Math/ -drwxrwxr-x 3 netsw users 512 Jul 9 03:24 Misc/ -drwxrwxr-x 9 netsw users 512 Aug 1 16:33 Network/ -drwxrwxr-x 2 netsw users 512 Jul 9 05:53 Office/ -drwxrwxr-x 7 netsw users 512 Jul 9 09:24 SoftEng/ -drwxrwxr-x 7 netsw users 512 Jul 9 12:17 System/ -drwxrwxr-x 12 netsw users 512 Aug 3 20:15 Typesetting/ -drwxrwxr-x 10 netsw users 512 Jul 9 14:08 X11/ -</pre></div> - - <p>In July 1996 I decided to make this archive public to - the world via a nice Web interface. "Nice" means that I - wanted to offer an interface where you can browse - directly through the archive hierarchy. And "nice" means - that I didn't wanted to change anything inside this - hierarchy - not even by putting some CGI scripts at the - top of it. Why? Because the above structure should be - later accessible via FTP as well, and I didn't want any - Web or CGI stuff to be there.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The solution has two parts: The first is a set of CGI - scripts which create all the pages at all directory - levels on-the-fly. I put them under - <code>/e/netsw/.www/</code> as follows:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> --rw-r--r-- 1 netsw users 1318 Aug 1 18:10 .wwwacl -drwxr-xr-x 18 netsw users 512 Aug 5 15:51 DATA/ --rw-rw-rw- 1 netsw users 372982 Aug 5 16:35 LOGFILE --rw-r--r-- 1 netsw users 659 Aug 4 09:27 TODO --rw-r--r-- 1 netsw users 5697 Aug 1 18:01 netsw-about.html --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 579 Aug 2 10:33 netsw-access.pl --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 1532 Aug 1 17:35 netsw-changes.cgi --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 2866 Aug 5 14:49 netsw-home.cgi -drwxr-xr-x 2 netsw users 512 Jul 8 23:47 netsw-img/ --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 24050 Aug 5 15:49 netsw-lsdir.cgi --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 1589 Aug 3 18:43 netsw-search.cgi --rwxr-xr-x 1 netsw users 1885 Aug 1 17:41 netsw-tree.cgi --rw-r--r-- 1 netsw users 234 Jul 30 16:35 netsw-unlimit.lst -</pre></div> - - <p>The <code>DATA/</code> subdirectory holds the above - directory structure, i.e. the real - <strong><em>net.sw</em></strong> stuff and gets - automatically updated via <code>rdist</code> from time to - time. The second part of the problem remains: how to link - these two structures together into one smooth-looking URL - tree? We want to hide the <code>DATA/</code> directory - from the user while running the appropriate CGI scripts - for the various URLs. Here is the solution: first I put - the following into the per-directory configuration file - in the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code> - of the server to rewrite the announced URL - <code>/net.sw/</code> to the internal path - <code>/e/netsw</code>:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^net.sw$ net.sw/ [R] -RewriteRule ^net.sw/(.*)$ e/netsw/$1 -</pre></div> - - <p>The first rule is for requests which miss the trailing - slash! The second rule does the real thing. And then - comes the killer configuration which stays in the - per-directory config file - <code>/e/netsw/.www/.wwwacl</code>:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -Options ExecCGI FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews - -RewriteEngine on - -# we are reached via /net.sw/ prefix -RewriteBase /net.sw/ - -# first we rewrite the root dir to -# the handling cgi script -RewriteRule ^$ netsw-home.cgi [L] -RewriteRule ^index\.html$ netsw-home.cgi [L] - -# strip out the subdirs when -# the browser requests us from perdir pages -RewriteRule ^.+/(netsw-[^/]+/.+)$ $1 [L] - -# and now break the rewriting for local files -RewriteRule ^netsw-home\.cgi.* - [L] -RewriteRule ^netsw-changes\.cgi.* - [L] -RewriteRule ^netsw-search\.cgi.* - [L] -RewriteRule ^netsw-tree\.cgi$ - [L] -RewriteRule ^netsw-about\.html$ - [L] -RewriteRule ^netsw-img/.*$ - [L] - -# anything else is a subdir which gets handled -# by another cgi script -RewriteRule !^netsw-lsdir\.cgi.* - [C] -RewriteRule (.*) netsw-lsdir.cgi/$1 -</pre></div> - - <p>Some hints for interpretation:</p> - - <ol> - <li>Notice the <code>L</code> (last) flag and no - substitution field ('<code>-</code>') in the forth part</li> - - <li>Notice the <code>!</code> (not) character and - the <code>C</code> (chain) flag at the first rule - in the last part</li> - - <li>Notice the catch-all pattern in the last rule</li> - </ol> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>NCSA imagemap to Apache <code>mod_imap</code></h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>When switching from the NCSA webserver to the more - modern Apache webserver a lot of people want a smooth - transition. So they want pages which use their old NCSA - <code>imagemap</code> program to work under Apache with the - modern <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_imap.html">mod_imap</a></code>. The problem is that there - are a lot of hyperlinks around which reference the - <code>imagemap</code> program via - <code>/cgi-bin/imagemap/path/to/page.map</code>. Under - Apache this has to read just - <code>/path/to/page.map</code>.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We use a global rule to remove the prefix on-the-fly for - all requests:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteRule ^/cgi-bin/imagemap(.*) $1 [PT] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Search pages in more than one directory</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Sometimes it is necessary to let the webserver search - for pages in more than one directory. Here MultiViews or - other techniques cannot help.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We program a explicit ruleset which searches for the - files in the directories.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on - -# first try to find it in custom/... -# ...and if found stop and be happy: -RewriteCond /your/docroot/<strong>dir1</strong>/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f -RewriteRule ^(.+) /your/docroot/<strong>dir1</strong>/$1 [L] - -# second try to find it in pub/... -# ...and if found stop and be happy: -RewriteCond /your/docroot/<strong>dir2</strong>/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f -RewriteRule ^(.+) /your/docroot/<strong>dir2</strong>/$1 [L] - -# else go on for other Alias or ScriptAlias directives, -# etc. -RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Set Environment Variables According To URL Parts</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Perhaps you want to keep status information between - requests and use the URL to encode it. But you don't want - to use a CGI wrapper for all pages just to strip out this - information.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We use a rewrite rule to strip out the status information - and remember it via an environment variable which can be - later dereferenced from within XSSI or CGI. This way a - URL <code>/foo/S=java/bar/</code> gets translated to - <code>/foo/bar/</code> and the environment variable named - <code>STATUS</code> is set to the value "java".</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteRule ^(.*)/<strong>S=([^/]+)</strong>/(.*) $1/$3 [E=<strong>STATUS:$2</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Virtual User Hosts</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Assume that you want to provide - <code>www.<strong>username</strong>.host.domain.com</code> - for the homepage of username via just DNS A records to the - same machine and without any virtualhosts on this - machine.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>For HTTP/1.0 requests there is no solution, but for - HTTP/1.1 requests which contain a Host: HTTP header we - can use the following ruleset to rewrite - <code>http://www.username.host.com/anypath</code> - internally to <code>/home/username/anypath</code>:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond %{<strong>HTTP_HOST</strong>} ^www\.<strong>[^.]+</strong>\.host\.com$ -RewriteRule ^(.+) %{HTTP_HOST}$1 [C] -RewriteRule ^www\.<strong>([^.]+)</strong>\.host\.com(.*) /home/<strong>$1</strong>$2 -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Redirect Homedirs For Foreigners</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We want to redirect homedir URLs to another webserver - <code>www.somewhere.com</code> when the requesting user - does not stay in the local domain - <code>ourdomain.com</code>. This is sometimes used in - virtual host contexts.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Just a rewrite condition:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^.+\.ourdomain\.com$</strong> -RewriteRule ^(/~.+) http://www.somewhere.com/$1 [R,L] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Redirect Failing URLs To Other Webserver</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>A typical FAQ about URL rewriting is how to redirect - failing requests on webserver A to webserver B. Usually - this is done via <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> CGI-scripts in Perl, but - there is also a <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> solution. - But notice that this performs more poorly than using an - <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> - CGI-script!</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The first solution has the best performance but less - flexibility, and is less error safe:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond /your/docroot/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>!-f</strong> -RewriteRule ^(.+) http://<strong>webserverB</strong>.dom/$1 -</pre></div> - - <p>The problem here is that this will only work for pages - inside the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#documentroot">DocumentRoot</a></code>. While you can add more - Conditions (for instance to also handle homedirs, etc.) - there is better variant:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} <strong>!-U</strong> -RewriteRule ^(.+) http://<strong>webserverB</strong>.dom/$1 -</pre></div> - - <p>This uses the URL look-ahead feature of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>. - The result is that this will work for all types of URLs - and is a safe way. But it does a performance impact on - the webserver, because for every request there is one - more internal subrequest. So, if your webserver runs on a - powerful CPU, use this one. If it is a slow machine, use - the first approach or better a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#errordocument">ErrorDocument</a></code> CGI-script.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Extended Redirection</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Sometimes we need more control (concerning the - character escaping mechanism) of URLs on redirects. - Usually the Apache kernels URL escape function also - escapes anchors, i.e. URLs like "<code>url#anchor</code>". - You cannot use this directly on redirects with - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> because the - <code>uri_escape()</code> function of Apache - would also escape the hash character. - How can we redirect to such a URL?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We have to use a kludge by the use of a NPH-CGI script - which does the redirect itself. Because here no escaping - is done (NPH=non-parseable headers). First we introduce a - new URL scheme <code>xredirect:</code> by the following - per-server config-line (should be one of the last rewrite - rules):</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^xredirect:(.+) /path/to/nph-xredirect.cgi/$1 \ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L] -</pre></div> - - <p>This forces all URLs prefixed with - <code>xredirect:</code> to be piped through the - <code>nph-xredirect.cgi</code> program. And this program - just looks like:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -#!/path/to/perl -## -## nph-xredirect.cgi -- NPH/CGI script for extended redirects -## Copyright (c) 1997 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights Reserved. -## - -$| = 1; -$url = $ENV{'PATH_INFO'}; - -print "HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily\n"; -print "Server: $ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'}\n"; -print "Location: $url\n"; -print "Content-type: text/html\n"; -print "\n"; -print "<html>\n"; -print "<head>\n"; -print "<title>302 Moved Temporarily (EXTENDED)</title>\n"; -print "</head>\n"; -print "<body>\n"; -print "<h1>Moved Temporarily (EXTENDED)</h1>\n"; -print "The document has moved <a HREF=\"$url\">here</a>.<p>\n"; -print "</body>\n"; -print "</html>\n"; - -##EOF## -</pre></div> - - <p>This provides you with the functionality to do - redirects to all URL schemes, i.e. including the one - which are not directly accepted by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>. - For instance you can now also redirect to - <code>news:newsgroup</code> via</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^anyurl xredirect:news:newsgroup -</pre></div> - - <div class="note">Notice: You have not to put <code>[R]</code> or - <code>[R,L]</code> to the above rule because the - <code>xredirect:</code> need to be expanded later - by our special "pipe through" rule above.</div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Archive Access Multiplexer</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Do you know the great CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive - Network) under <a href="http://www.perl.com/CPAN">http://www.perl.com/CPAN</a>? - This does a redirect to one of several FTP servers around - the world which carry a CPAN mirror and is approximately - near the location of the requesting client. Actually this - can be called an FTP access multiplexing service. While - CPAN runs via CGI scripts, how can a similar approach - implemented via <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>First we notice that from version 3.0.0 - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> can - also use the "<code>ftp:</code>" scheme on redirects. - And second, the location approximation can be done by a - <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code> - over the top-level domain of the client. - With a tricky chained ruleset we can use this top-level - domain as a key to our multiplexing map.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteMap multiplex txt:/path/to/map.cxan -RewriteRule ^/CxAN/(.*) %{REMOTE_HOST}::$1 [C] -RewriteRule ^.+\.<strong>([a-zA-Z]+)</strong>::(.*)$ ${multiplex:<strong>$1</strong>|ftp.default.dom}$2 [R,L] -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -## -## map.cxan -- Multiplexing Map for CxAN -## - -de ftp://ftp.cxan.de/CxAN/ -uk ftp://ftp.cxan.uk/CxAN/ -com ftp://ftp.cxan.com/CxAN/ - : -##EOF## -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Time-Dependent Rewriting</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>When tricks like time-dependent content should happen a - lot of webmasters still use CGI scripts which do for - instance redirects to specialized pages. How can it be done - via <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>There are a lot of variables named <code>TIME_xxx</code> - for rewrite conditions. In conjunction with the special - lexicographic comparison patterns <code><STRING</code>, - <code>>STRING</code> and <code>=STRING</code> we can - do time-dependent redirects:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} >0700 -RewriteCond %{TIME_HOUR}%{TIME_MIN} <1900 -RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.day.html -RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.night.html -</pre></div> - - <p>This provides the content of <code>foo.day.html</code> - under the URL <code>foo.html</code> from - <code>07:00-19:00</code> and at the remaining time the - contents of <code>foo.night.html</code>. Just a nice - feature for a homepage...</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Backward Compatibility for YYYY to XXXX migration</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we make URLs backward compatible (still - existing virtually) after migrating <code>document.YYYY</code> - to <code>document.XXXX</code>, e.g. after translating a - bunch of <code>.html</code> files to <code>.phtml</code>?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We just rewrite the name to its basename and test for - existence of the new extension. If it exists, we take - that name, else we rewrite the URL to its original state.</p> - - -<div class="example"><pre> -# backward compatibility ruleset for -# rewriting document.html to document.phtml -# when and only when document.phtml exists -# but no longer document.html -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -# parse out basename, but remember the fact -RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1 [C,E=WasHTML:yes] -# rewrite to document.phtml if exists -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.phtml -f -RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.phtml [S=1] -# else reverse the previous basename cutout -RewriteCond %{ENV:WasHTML} ^yes$ -RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="content" id="content">Content Handling</a></h2> - - - - <h3>From Old to New (intern)</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Assume we have recently renamed the page - <code>foo.html</code> to <code>bar.html</code> and now want - to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. Actually - we want that users of the old URL even not recognize that - the pages was renamed.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We rewrite the old URL to the new one internally via the - following rule:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^<strong>foo</strong>\.html$ <strong>bar</strong>.html -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>From Old to New (extern)</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Assume again that we have recently renamed the page - <code>foo.html</code> to <code>bar.html</code> and now want - to provide the old URL for backward compatibility. But this - time we want that the users of the old URL get hinted to - the new one, i.e. their browsers Location field should - change, too.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We force a HTTP redirect to the new URL which leads to a - change of the browsers and thus the users view:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^<strong>foo</strong>\.html$ <strong>bar</strong>.html [<strong>R</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Browser Dependent Content</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>At least for important top-level pages it is sometimes - necessary to provide the optimum of browser dependent - content, i.e. one has to provide a maximum version for the - latest Netscape variants, a minimum version for the Lynx - browsers and a average feature version for all others.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We cannot use content negotiation because the browsers do - not provide their type in that form. Instead we have to - act on the HTTP header "User-Agent". The following condig - does the following: If the HTTP header "User-Agent" - begins with "Mozilla/3", the page <code>foo.html</code> - is rewritten to <code>foo.NS.html</code> and and the - rewriting stops. If the browser is "Lynx" or "Mozilla" of - version 1 or 2 the URL becomes <code>foo.20.html</code>. - All other browsers receive page <code>foo.32.html</code>. - This is done by the following ruleset:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^<strong>Mozilla/3</strong>.* -RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.<strong>NS</strong>.html [<strong>L</strong>] - -RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^<strong>Lynx/</strong>.* [OR] -RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^<strong>Mozilla/[12]</strong>.* -RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.<strong>20</strong>.html [<strong>L</strong>] - -RewriteRule ^foo\.html$ foo.<strong>32</strong>.html [<strong>L</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Dynamic Mirror</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Assume there are nice webpages on remote hosts we want - to bring into our namespace. For FTP servers we would use - the <code>mirror</code> program which actually maintains an - explicit up-to-date copy of the remote data on the local - machine. For a webserver we could use the program - <code>webcopy</code> which acts similar via HTTP. But both - techniques have one major drawback: The local copy is - always just as up-to-date as often we run the program. It - would be much better if the mirror is not a static one we - have to establish explicitly. Instead we want a dynamic - mirror with data which gets updated automatically when - there is need (updated data on the remote host).</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>To provide this feature we map the remote webpage or even - the complete remote webarea to our namespace by the use - of the <dfn>Proxy Throughput</dfn> feature - (flag <code>[P]</code>):</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^<strong>hotsheet/</strong>(.*)$ <strong>http://www.tstimpreso.com/hotsheet/</strong>$1 [<strong>P</strong>] -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^<strong>usa-news\.html</strong>$ <strong>http://www.quux-corp.com/news/index.html</strong> [<strong>P</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Reverse Dynamic Mirror</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd>...</dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteCond /mirror/of/remotesite/$1 -U -RewriteRule ^http://www\.remotesite\.com/(.*)$ /mirror/of/remotesite/$1 -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Retrieve Missing Data from Intranet</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>This is a tricky way of virtually running a corporate - (external) Internet webserver - (<code>www.quux-corp.dom</code>), while actually keeping - and maintaining its data on a (internal) Intranet webserver - (<code>www2.quux-corp.dom</code>) which is protected by a - firewall. The trick is that on the external webserver we - retrieve the requested data on-the-fly from the internal - one.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>First, we have to make sure that our firewall still - protects the internal webserver and that only the - external webserver is allowed to retrieve data from it. - For a packet-filtering firewall we could for instance - configure a firewall ruleset like the following:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -<strong>ALLOW</strong> Host www.quux-corp.dom Port >1024 --> Host www2.quux-corp.dom Port <strong>80</strong> -<strong>DENY</strong> Host * Port * --> Host www2.quux-corp.dom Port <strong>80</strong> -</pre></div> - - <p>Just adjust it to your actual configuration syntax. - Now we can establish the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> - rules which request the missing data in the background - through the proxy throughput feature:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^/~([^/]+)/?(.*) /home/$1/.www/$2 -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>!-f</strong> -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>!-d</strong> -RewriteRule ^/home/([^/]+)/.www/?(.*) http://<strong>www2</strong>.quux-corp.dom/~$1/pub/$2 [<strong>P</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Load Balancing</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Suppose we want to load balance the traffic to - <code>www.foo.com</code> over <code>www[0-5].foo.com</code> - (a total of 6 servers). How can this be done?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>There are a lot of possible solutions for this problem. - We will discuss first a commonly known DNS-based variant - and then the special one with <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>:</p> - - <ol> - <li> - <strong>DNS Round-Robin</strong> - - <p>The simplest method for load-balancing is to use - the DNS round-robin feature of <code>BIND</code>. - Here you just configure <code>www[0-9].foo.com</code> - as usual in your DNS with A(address) records, e.g.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -www0 IN A 1.2.3.1 -www1 IN A 1.2.3.2 -www2 IN A 1.2.3.3 -www3 IN A 1.2.3.4 -www4 IN A 1.2.3.5 -www5 IN A 1.2.3.6 -</pre></div> - - <p>Then you additionally add the following entry:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -www IN CNAME www0.foo.com. - IN CNAME www1.foo.com. - IN CNAME www2.foo.com. - IN CNAME www3.foo.com. - IN CNAME www4.foo.com. - IN CNAME www5.foo.com. - IN CNAME www6.foo.com. -</pre></div> - - <p>Notice that this seems wrong, but is actually an - intended feature of <code>BIND</code> and can be used - in this way. However, now when <code>www.foo.com</code> gets - resolved, <code>BIND</code> gives out <code>www0-www6</code> - - but in a slightly permutated/rotated order every time. - This way the clients are spread over the various - servers. But notice that this not a perfect load - balancing scheme, because DNS resolve information - gets cached by the other nameservers on the net, so - once a client has resolved <code>www.foo.com</code> - to a particular <code>wwwN.foo.com</code>, all - subsequent requests also go to this particular name - <code>wwwN.foo.com</code>. But the final result is - ok, because the total sum of the requests are really - spread over the various webservers.</p> - </li> - - <li> - <strong>DNS Load-Balancing</strong> - - <p>A sophisticated DNS-based method for - load-balancing is to use the program - <code>lbnamed</code> which can be found at <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html"> - http://www.stanford.edu/~schemers/docs/lbnamed/lbnamed.html</a>. - It is a Perl 5 program in conjunction with auxilliary - tools which provides a real load-balancing for - DNS.</p> - </li> - - <li> - <strong>Proxy Throughput Round-Robin</strong> - - <p>In this variant we use <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> - and its proxy throughput feature. First we dedicate - <code>www0.foo.com</code> to be actually - <code>www.foo.com</code> by using a single</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -www IN CNAME www0.foo.com. -</pre></div> - - <p>entry in the DNS. Then we convert - <code>www0.foo.com</code> to a proxy-only server, - i.e. we configure this machine so all arriving URLs - are just pushed through the internal proxy to one of - the 5 other servers (<code>www1-www5</code>). To - accomplish this we first establish a ruleset which - contacts a load balancing script <code>lb.pl</code> - for all URLs.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteMap lb prg:/path/to/lb.pl -RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ ${lb:$1} [P,L] -</pre></div> - - <p>Then we write <code>lb.pl</code>:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -#!/path/to/perl -## -## lb.pl -- load balancing script -## - -$| = 1; - -$name = "www"; # the hostname base -$first = 1; # the first server (not 0 here, because 0 is myself) -$last = 5; # the last server in the round-robin -$domain = "foo.dom"; # the domainname - -$cnt = 0; -while (<STDIN>) { - $cnt = (($cnt+1) % ($last+1-$first)); - $server = sprintf("%s%d.%s", $name, $cnt+$first, $domain); - print "http://$server/$_"; -} - -##EOF## -</pre></div> - - <div class="note">A last notice: Why is this useful? Seems like - <code>www0.foo.com</code> still is overloaded? The - answer is yes, it is overloaded, but with plain proxy - throughput requests, only! All SSI, CGI, ePerl, etc. - processing is completely done on the other machines. - This is the essential point.</div> - </li> - - <li> - <strong>Hardware/TCP Round-Robin</strong> - - <p>There is a hardware solution available, too. Cisco - has a beast called LocalDirector which does a load - balancing at the TCP/IP level. Actually this is some - sort of a circuit level gateway in front of a - webcluster. If you have enough money and really need - a solution with high performance, use this one.</p> - </li> - </ol> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>New MIME-type, New Service</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>On the net there are a lot of nifty CGI programs. But - their usage is usually boring, so a lot of webmaster - don't use them. Even Apache's Action handler feature for - MIME-types is only appropriate when the CGI programs - don't need special URLs (actually <code>PATH_INFO</code> - and <code>QUERY_STRINGS</code>) as their input. First, - let us configure a new file type with extension - <code>.scgi</code> (for secure CGI) which will be processed - by the popular <code>cgiwrap</code> program. The problem - here is that for instance we use a Homogeneous URL Layout - (see above) a file inside the user homedirs has the URL - <code>/u/user/foo/bar.scgi</code>. But - <code>cgiwrap</code> needs the URL in the form - <code>/~user/foo/bar.scgi/</code>. The following rule - solves the problem:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^/[uge]/<strong>([^/]+)</strong>/\.www/(.+)\.scgi(.*) ... -... /internal/cgi/user/cgiwrap/~<strong>$1</strong>/$2.scgi$3 [NS,<strong>T=application/x-http-cgi</strong>] -</pre></div> - - <p>Or assume we have some more nifty programs: - <code>wwwlog</code> (which displays the - <code>access.log</code> for a URL subtree and - <code>wwwidx</code> (which runs Glimpse on a URL - subtree). We have to provide the URL area to these - programs so they know on which area they have to act on. - But usually this ugly, because they are all the times - still requested from that areas, i.e. typically we would - run the <code>swwidx</code> program from within - <code>/u/user/foo/</code> via hyperlink to</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -/internal/cgi/user/swwidx?i=/u/user/foo/ -</pre></div> - - <p>which is ugly. Because we have to hard-code - <strong>both</strong> the location of the area - <strong>and</strong> the location of the CGI inside the - hyperlink. When we have to reorganize the area, we spend a - lot of time changing the various hyperlinks.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The solution here is to provide a special new URL format - which automatically leads to the proper CGI invocation. - We configure the following:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^/([uge])/([^/]+)(/?.*)/\* /internal/cgi/user/wwwidx?i=/$1/$2$3/ -RewriteRule ^/([uge])/([^/]+)(/?.*):log /internal/cgi/user/wwwlog?f=/$1/$2$3 -</pre></div> - - <p>Now the hyperlink to search at - <code>/u/user/foo/</code> reads only</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -HREF="*" -</pre></div> - - <p>which internally gets automatically transformed to</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -/internal/cgi/user/wwwidx?i=/u/user/foo/ -</pre></div> - - <p>The same approach leads to an invocation for the - access log CGI program when the hyperlink - <code>:log</code> gets used.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>From Static to Dynamic</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we transform a static page - <code>foo.html</code> into a dynamic variant - <code>foo.cgi</code> in a seamless way, i.e. without notice - by the browser/user.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We just rewrite the URL to the CGI-script and force the - correct MIME-type so it gets really run as a CGI-script. - This way a request to <code>/~quux/foo.html</code> - internally leads to the invocation of - <code>/~quux/foo.cgi</code>.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteBase /~quux/ -RewriteRule ^foo\.<strong>html</strong>$ foo.<strong>cgi</strong> [T=<strong>application/x-httpd-cgi</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>On-the-fly Content-Regeneration</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Here comes a really esoteric feature: Dynamically - generated but statically served pages, i.e. pages should be - delivered as pure static pages (read from the filesystem - and just passed through), but they have to be generated - dynamically by the webserver if missing. This way you can - have CGI-generated pages which are statically served unless - one (or a cronjob) removes the static contents. Then the - contents gets refreshed.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - This is done via the following ruleset: - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} <strong>!-s</strong> -RewriteRule ^page\.<strong>html</strong>$ page.<strong>cgi</strong> [T=application/x-httpd-cgi,L] -</pre></div> - - <p>Here a request to <code>page.html</code> leads to a - internal run of a corresponding <code>page.cgi</code> if - <code>page.html</code> is still missing or has filesize - null. The trick here is that <code>page.cgi</code> is a - usual CGI script which (additionally to its <code>STDOUT</code>) - writes its output to the file <code>page.html</code>. - Once it was run, the server sends out the data of - <code>page.html</code>. When the webmaster wants to force - a refresh the contents, he just removes - <code>page.html</code> (usually done by a cronjob).</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Document With Autorefresh</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Wouldn't it be nice while creating a complex webpage if - the webbrowser would automatically refresh the page every - time we write a new version from within our editor? - Impossible?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>No! We just combine the MIME multipart feature, the - webserver NPH feature and the URL manipulation power of - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>. First, we establish a new - URL feature: Adding just <code>:refresh</code> to any - URL causes this to be refreshed every time it gets - updated on the filesystem.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteRule ^(/[uge]/[^/]+/?.*):refresh /internal/cgi/apache/nph-refresh?f=$1 -</pre></div> - - <p>Now when we reference the URL</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -/u/foo/bar/page.html:refresh -</pre></div> - - <p>this leads to the internal invocation of the URL</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -/internal/cgi/apache/nph-refresh?f=/u/foo/bar/page.html -</pre></div> - - <p>The only missing part is the NPH-CGI script. Although - one would usually say "left as an exercise to the reader" - ;-) I will provide this, too.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -#!/sw/bin/perl -## -## nph-refresh -- NPH/CGI script for auto refreshing pages -## Copyright (c) 1997 Ralf S. Engelschall, All Rights Reserved. -## -$| = 1; - -# split the QUERY_STRING variable -@pairs = split(/&/, $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}); -foreach $pair (@pairs) { - ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair); - $name =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/; - $name = 'QS_' . $name; - $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg; - eval "\$$name = \"$value\""; -} -$QS_s = 1 if ($QS_s eq ''); -$QS_n = 3600 if ($QS_n eq ''); -if ($QS_f eq '') { - print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; - print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; - print "&lt;b&gt;ERROR&lt;/b&gt;: No file given\n"; - exit(0); -} -if (! -f $QS_f) { - print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; - print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; - print "&lt;b&gt;ERROR&lt;/b&gt;: File $QS_f not found\n"; - exit(0); -} - -sub print_http_headers_multipart_begin { - print "HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n"; - $bound = "ThisRandomString12345"; - print "Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=$bound\n"; - &print_http_headers_multipart_next; -} - -sub print_http_headers_multipart_next { - print "\n--$bound\n"; -} - -sub print_http_headers_multipart_end { - print "\n--$bound--\n"; -} - -sub displayhtml { - local($buffer) = @_; - $len = length($buffer); - print "Content-type: text/html\n"; - print "Content-length: $len\n\n"; - print $buffer; -} - -sub readfile { - local($file) = @_; - local(*FP, $size, $buffer, $bytes); - ($x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $size) = stat($file); - $size = sprintf("%d", $size); - open(FP, "&lt;$file"); - $bytes = sysread(FP, $buffer, $size); - close(FP); - return $buffer; -} - -$buffer = &readfile($QS_f); -&print_http_headers_multipart_begin; -&displayhtml($buffer); - -sub mystat { - local($file) = $_[0]; - local($time); - - ($x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $x, $mtime) = stat($file); - return $mtime; -} - -$mtimeL = &mystat($QS_f); -$mtime = $mtime; -for ($n = 0; $n &lt; $QS_n; $n++) { - while (1) { - $mtime = &mystat($QS_f); - if ($mtime ne $mtimeL) { - $mtimeL = $mtime; - sleep(2); - $buffer = &readfile($QS_f); - &print_http_headers_multipart_next; - &displayhtml($buffer); - sleep(5); - $mtimeL = &mystat($QS_f); - last; - } - sleep($QS_s); - } -} - -&print_http_headers_multipart_end; - -exit(0); - -##EOF## -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Mass Virtual Hosting</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>The <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#virtualhost"><VirtualHost></a></code> feature of Apache is nice - and works great when you just have a few dozens - virtual hosts. But when you are an ISP and have hundreds of - virtual hosts to provide this feature is not the best - choice.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>To provide this feature we map the remote webpage or even - the complete remote webarea to our namespace by the use - of the <dfn>Proxy Throughput</dfn> feature (flag <code>[P]</code>):</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -## -## vhost.map -## -www.vhost1.dom:80 /path/to/docroot/vhost1 -www.vhost2.dom:80 /path/to/docroot/vhost2 - : -www.vhostN.dom:80 /path/to/docroot/vhostN -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -## -## httpd.conf -## - : -# use the canonical hostname on redirects, etc. -UseCanonicalName on - - : -# add the virtual host in front of the CLF-format -CustomLog /path/to/access_log "%{VHOST}e %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" - : - -# enable the rewriting engine in the main server -RewriteEngine on - -# define two maps: one for fixing the URL and one which defines -# the available virtual hosts with their corresponding -# DocumentRoot. -RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower -RewriteMap vhost txt:/path/to/vhost.map - -# Now do the actual virtual host mapping -# via a huge and complicated single rule: -# -# 1. make sure we don't map for common locations -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/commonurl1/.* -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/commonurl2/.* - : -RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/commonurlN/.* -# -# 2. make sure we have a Host header, because -# currently our approach only supports -# virtual hosting through this header -RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ -# -# 3. lowercase the hostname -RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}|NONE} ^(.+)$ -# -# 4. lookup this hostname in vhost.map and -# remember it only when it is a path -# (and not "NONE" from above) -RewriteCond ${vhost:%1} ^(/.*)$ -# -# 5. finally we can map the URL to its docroot location -# and remember the virtual host for logging puposes -RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ %1/$1 [E=VHOST:${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}}] - : -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="access" id="access">Access Restriction</a></h2> - - - - <h3>Blocking of Robots</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we block a really annoying robot from - retrieving pages of a specific webarea? A - <code>/robots.txt</code> file containing entries of the - "Robot Exclusion Protocol" is typically not enough to get - rid of such a robot.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We use a ruleset which forbids the URLs of the webarea - <code>/~quux/foo/arc/</code> (perhaps a very deep - directory indexed area where the robot traversal would - create big server load). We have to make sure that we - forbid access only to the particular robot, i.e. just - forbidding the host where the robot runs is not enough. - This would block users from this host, too. We accomplish - this by also matching the User-Agent HTTP header - information.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^<strong>NameOfBadRobot</strong>.* -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^<strong>123\.45\.67\.[8-9]</strong>$ -RewriteRule ^<strong>/~quux/foo/arc/</strong>.+ - [<strong>F</strong>] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Blocked Inline-Images</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Assume we have under <code>http://www.quux-corp.de/~quux/</code> - some pages with inlined GIF graphics. These graphics are - nice, so others directly incorporate them via hyperlinks to - their pages. We don't like this practice because it adds - useless traffic to our server.</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>While we cannot 100% protect the images from inclusion, - we can at least restrict the cases where the browser - sends a HTTP Referer header.</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} <strong>!^$</strong> -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.quux-corp.de/~quux/.*$ [NC] -RewriteRule <strong>.*\.gif$</strong> - [F] -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*/foo-with-gif\.html$ -RewriteRule <strong>^inlined-in-foo\.gif$</strong> - [F] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Host Deny</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we forbid a list of externally configured hosts - from using our server?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>For Apache >= 1.3b6:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteMap hosts-deny txt:/path/to/hosts.deny -RewriteCond ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_HOST}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND [OR] -RewriteCond ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND -RewriteRule ^/.* - [F] -</pre></div> - - <p>For Apache <= 1.3b6:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteMap hosts-deny txt:/path/to/hosts.deny -RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_HOST}|NOT-FOUND}/$1 -RewriteRule !^NOT-FOUND/.* - [F] -RewriteRule ^NOT-FOUND/(.*)$ ${hosts-deny:%{REMOTE_ADDR}|NOT-FOUND}/$1 -RewriteRule !^NOT-FOUND/.* - [F] -RewriteRule ^NOT-FOUND/(.*)$ /$1 -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -## -## hosts.deny -## -## ATTENTION! This is a map, not a list, even when we treat it as such. -## mod_rewrite parses it for key/value pairs, so at least a -## dummy value "-" must be present for each entry. -## - -193.102.180.41 - -bsdti1.sdm.de - -192.76.162.40 - -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Proxy Deny</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we forbid a certain host or even a user of a - special host from using the Apache proxy?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We first have to make sure <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code> - is below(!) <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code> in the Configuration - file when compiling the Apache webserver. This way it gets - called <em>before</em> <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_proxy.html">mod_proxy</a></code>. Then we - configure the following for a host-dependent deny...</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>^badhost\.mydomain\.com$</strong> -RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.* - [F] -</pre></div> - - <p>...and this one for a user@host-dependent deny:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>^badguy@badhost\.mydomain\.com$</strong> -RewriteRule !^http://[^/.]\.mydomain.com.* - [F] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Special Authentication Variant</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Sometimes a very special authentication is needed, for - instance a authentication which checks for a set of - explicitly configured users. Only these should receive - access and without explicit prompting (which would occur - when using the Basic Auth via <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_auth.html">mod_auth</a></code>).</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>We use a list of rewrite conditions to exclude all except - our friends:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend1@client1.quux-corp\.com$</strong> -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend2</strong>@client2.quux-corp\.com$ -RewriteCond %{REMOTE_IDENT}@%{REMOTE_HOST} <strong>!^friend3</strong>@client3.quux-corp\.com$ -RewriteRule ^/~quux/only-for-friends/ - [F] -</pre></div> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - <h3>Referer-based Deflector</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>How can we program a flexible URL Deflector which acts - on the "Referer" HTTP header and can be configured with as - many referring pages as we like?</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Use the following really tricky ruleset...</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteMap deflector txt:/path/to/deflector.map - -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !="" -RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} ^-$ -RewriteRule ^.* %{HTTP_REFERER} [R,L] - -RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !="" -RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND -RewriteRule ^.* ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} [R,L] -</pre></div> - - <p>... in conjunction with a corresponding rewrite - map:</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -## -## deflector.map -## - -http://www.badguys.com/bad/index.html - -http://www.badguys.com/bad/index2.html - -http://www.badguys.com/bad/index3.html http://somewhere.com/ -</pre></div> - - <p>This automatically redirects the request back to the - referring page (when "<code>-</code>" is used as the value - in the map) or to a specific URL (when an URL is specified - in the map as the second argument).</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> -<div class="section"> -<h2><a name="other" id="other">Other</a></h2> - - - - <h3>External Rewriting Engine</h3> - - - - <dl> - <dt>Description:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>A FAQ: How can we solve the FOO/BAR/QUUX/etc. - problem? There seems no solution by the use of - <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html">mod_rewrite</a></code>...</p> - </dd> - - <dt>Solution:</dt> - - <dd> - <p>Use an external <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>, i.e. a program which acts - like a <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_rewrite.html#rewritemap">RewriteMap</a></code>. It is run once on startup of Apache - receives the requested URLs on <code>STDIN</code> and has - to put the resulting (usually rewritten) URL on - <code>STDOUT</code> (same order!).</p> - -<div class="example"><pre> -RewriteEngine on -RewriteMap quux-map <strong>prg:</strong>/path/to/map.quux.pl -RewriteRule ^/~quux/(.*)$ /~quux/<strong>${quux-map:$1}</strong> -</pre></div> - -<div class="example"><pre> -#!/path/to/perl - -# disable buffered I/O which would lead -# to deadloops for the Apache server -$| = 1; - -# read URLs one per line from stdin and -# generate substitution URL on stdout -while (<>) { - s|^foo/|bar/|; - print $_; -} -</pre></div> - - <p>This is a demonstration-only example and just rewrites - all URLs <code>/~quux/foo/...</code> to - <code>/~quux/bar/...</code>. Actually you can program - whatever you like. But notice that while such maps can be - <strong>used</strong> also by an average user, only the - system administrator can <strong>define</strong> it.</p> - </dd> - </dl> - - - - </div></div> -<div class="bottomlang"> -<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/misc/rewriteguide.html" title="English"> en </a> | -<a href="../ko/misc/rewriteguide.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> -</div><div id="footer"> -<p class="apache">Copyright 2009 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p> -<p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div> -</body></html>
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