Bug? or am I doing something wrong

[MikeH Profile]

Hello,

I've got 2 servers, configured nearly identically except for the build of ISAPI_Rewrite3 installed.

Server1, which "works", has 3.1.0.60;
Server2, which "doesn't", has 3.1.0.62.

The differences are as follows. I am trying to do a rewrite rule, with somewhat different syntax from that in your examples, to change http://site.com to http://www.site.com.

On Server1, a rule such as this works:

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^site1\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www\.site1\.com$1 [NC,R=301]

This produces a result which I would expect:

$ wget site1.com/thiswill404 --spider

Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2012-08-01 17:21:29-- http://site1.com/thiswill404
Resolving site1.com... 1.2.3.4
Connecting to site1.com|1.2.3.4|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.site1.com/thiswill404 [following]
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2012-08-01 17:21:29-- http://www.site1.com/thiswill404
Resolving http://www.site1.com... 1.2.3.4
Connecting to http://www.site1.com|1.2.3.4|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found


On server2, site2.com does something very odd:

--2012-08-01 17:23:42-- http://site2.com/thiswill404
Resolving site2.com... 2.2.3.4
Connecting to site2.com|2.2.3.4|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.site2.comthiswill404 [following]
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2012-08-01 17:23:42-- http://www.site2.comthiswill404/
Resolving http://www.site2.comthiswill404... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.www.site2.comthiswill404'


For server2, the rewrite rule which works is as follows, after affixing a \/ to the .com.

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^site2\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www\.site2\.com\/$1 [NC,R=301]

Is this a known issue? I couldn't really tell if it was a bug, or fixed, while reading the changelog.
Will upgrading to the latest build fix this issue?

Thanks!

Mike

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello Mike,

There's a directive called RewriteBase which "automatically strips the local directory prefix from the path and apply rules only to the remainder".

So in case you have "RewriteBase /" the rule should look like: RewriteRule ^folder/sub-folder$ ....

Your .htaccess file has this directive enabled automatically, while httpd.conf doesn't. This could be the source of your issue. So the value of (.*) in your case may vary depending on config files you use.

I'd also suggest using:

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RewriteRule (.*) http://www\.site2\.com/$1 [NC,R=301]

No '\' is needed.

Regards
Andrew

[tripodzid Profile]

This there a page where all rules can be seen?