1197501 - mod_rewrite not working correctly on http://l10n.mozilla-community.org

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Localization Server, task)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

It's probably just me being less smart than usual, but I can't get the mod_rewrite on our community server to work as expected.

I have an app that works correctly locally on both Apache 2.2 and 2.4, and fails miserably on the server.

I tried to create a minimal example
https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~flod/test_rewrite/

There's a text file in text/test.txt, opening 
https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~flod/test_rewrite/aaa

Should load the text file, but I only get a 404. Locally it works as expected.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule aaa text/test.txt [L]
</IfModule>

After spending hours trying to figure out the issue, I'm open for ideas.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

Edited the example. Folder has only one text file in it
https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~flod/test_rewrite/sample.txt

.htaccess file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteRule ^test$ sample.txt [L]
    RewriteRule ^moz$ https://mozilla.org [L]
</IfModule>

https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~flod/test_rewrite/moz
Correctly redirects to mozilla.org, which means the .htaccess file is read and mod_rewrite enabled

https://l10n.mozilla-community.org/~flod/test_rewrite/test
Doesn't work, while locally loads sample.txt

@Reed
Do you have any clue why it fails like this?

Comment 2

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

If the idea is to have a front controller, this is what I have in the stores_l10n app on the community server (and it took me a long time to find it):
For the stores_l10n app I struggled with it and this worked:

# Rewrite all requests to the front controller
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /~pascalc/stores_l10n/

  # Existing files and folders are not redirected
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule (.*) index.php [L,QSA]
</IfModule>

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

Ugh, it's the RewriteBase. If I add this line it works

RewriteBase /~flod/test_rewrite

It also makes the projects absolutely a nightmare in terms of portability.

But thanks, that's a first step in the right direction. I even tried playing with RewriteBase, but the URL reported as "not found" was absolutely correct, so I didn't try really hard.

P.S. I don't think you need QSA in that .htaccess?

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #3)

> P.S. I don't think you need QSA in that .htaccess?

It doesn't hurt to have it and it's not uncommon to set up redirects in which you don't want to loose the query string.

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod] (OOO July 12–20)]

I think I finally found a solution, with a decent explanation here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16762119/what-does-1-mean-in-an-htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}::$1 ^(/.+)(.+)::\2$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=BASE:%1]

    RewriteRule ^test$ %{ENV:BASE}sample.txt [L]
</IfModule>