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rahennig
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Posted: 08 July 2008 at 4:12pm \| IP Logged

So, we've got IIS6 servers and I need to get Joomla running and instead of messing with trying to get Joomla workign on IIS6, I've decided to install Apache and PHP onto one of the machines and have Apache run on port 7755 and use ISAPI_Rewrite to reverse proxy to Apache.

To get things started, I decided to create a rule to forward requests over to Apache whenever a request matches:

http://www.mydomain.com/apache/rest/of/path/here

and install Joomla into htdocs under the directory 'joomla'

Here is my configuration file:

Code:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.51
RewriteEngine On

LogLevel debug
RewriteLog "C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\Rewrite.log"
ErrorLog "C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\error.log"

RewriteProxy ^joomla(.*) http\://www.mydomain.com:7575/joomla$1 [NC,P,H]

This works if my request string is just

http://www.mydomain.com/joomla
or
http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/

but if I do:

http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/index.php

both Firefox and IE return nothing.

I noticed from the logs, that index.php is redirecting to installation/index.php and so I tried

http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/installation/index.php

which again returned nothing.

I then tried telnetting in and typing

GET /joomla/installation/index.php HTTP/1.0

from which I got the expected Joomla installation configuration page.

Here is the apache log:

Code:

116.81.45 - - [08/Jul/2008:15:47:03 -0500] "GET /joomla/index.php HTTP/1.1" 302 -
116.81.45 - - [08/Jul/2008:15:47:03 -0500] "GET /joomla/installation/index.php HTTP/1.1" 200 8173
116.81.45 - - [08/Jul/2008:15:47:57 -0500] "GET /joomla/installation/index.php HTTP/1.0" 200 8173

and here is the IIS6 log:

Code:

2008-07-08 20:42:20 129.116.81.45 GET /joomla/installation/index.phpx.rwhlp p=16 80 - 146.6.159.48 - 200 0 0
2008-07-08 20:47:03 129.116.81.45 GET /joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp p=16 80 - 146.6.159.48 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.2;+en-US;+rv:1.8.1.15)+Gecko/20080623+Firefox/2.0.0.15 200 0 0
2008-07-08 20:47:05 129.116.81.45 GET /joomla/installation/index.phpx.rwhlp p=16 80 - 146.6.159.48 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.2;+en-US;+rv:1.8.1.15)+Gecko/20080623+Firefox/2.0.0.15 200 0 64

and I would post a rewrite log but I seem to get none.

The HTTP response, without all of the response HTML is

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 08 
Jul 2008 20:52:57 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: 
ASP.NET
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, 
pre-check=0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Mon, 1 Jan 
2001 00:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:52:57 GMT
P3P: 
CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
Pragma: 
no-cache
Set-Cookie: 
9d4bb4a09f511681369671a08beff228=v1gcg4mdnn4278e3g4ar9njci0; 
path=/
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5

Edited by rahennig - 08 July 2008 at 4:24pm

Vyacheslav
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 6:04am \| IP Logged

Hi rahenning!

Please try this solution:

Code:

RewriteProxy ^joomla(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com:7575/joomla/?%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,H,QSA]

Also, if you want to provide rewrite.log, please set RewriteLogLevel to 9 in your configuration file.
If solution doesn't work, please provide your rewrite.log

Edited by Vyacheslav - 09 July 2008 at 6:05am

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rahennig
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 9:28am \| IP Logged

I tried that, here's the logs:

IIS6:

Code:

2008-07-09 14:01:10 129.116.81.45 GET /joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp p=16 80 - 146.6.159.48 Mozilla/5.0+(Windows;+U;+Windows+NT+5.2;+en-US;+rv:1.8.1.15)+Gecko/20080623+Firefox/2.0.0.15 200 0 0

Apache:

Code:

129.116.81.45 - - [09/Jul/2008:09:01:10 -0500] "GET /joomla/?%7BQUERY_STRING%7D HTTP/1.1" 200 1456

And still no rewrite.log being created by ISAPI_Rewrite3.

Vyacheslav
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 10:02am \| IP Logged

Hi rahennig!

1) Please check RewriteLogLevel variable in httpd.conf file.
2) Also, please check your permissions, according to http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/doc/security.htm

After this actions, maybe you would provide to us your rewrite.log.

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rahennig
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Posted: 09 July 2008 at 10:38am \| IP Logged

I got the rewrite log to work:

Code:

146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /joomla/index.php
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (1) Htaccess process request e:\inetpub\wwwroot\.htaccess
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (3) applying pattern '^joomla(.*)$' to uri 'joomla/index.php'
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (1) escaping http://ficp.engr.utexas.edu:9797/?{QUERY_STRING}
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (2) forcing proxy-throughput with /joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp?p=16
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (1) go-ahead with proxy request /joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp?p=16 [OK]
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (2) rewrite 'joomla/index.php' -> '/joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp?p=16'
146.6.159.48 146.6.159.48 Wed, 09-Jul-2008 10:14:04 GMT [ficp.engr.utexas.edu/sid#1][rid#19734760/initial] (2) internal redirect with /joomla/index.phpx.rwhlp?p=16 [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

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Posted: 10 July 2008 at 4:45am \| IP Logged

We would advise you to install Joomla on IIS, this solution would have higher performance.

Also please try to use this rule:

RewriteProxy ^joomla(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com:7575/joomla$1 [NC,H,QSA]

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Vyacheslav
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Posted: 10 July 2008 at 5:04am \| IP Logged

Hi rahennig!

Please insert this PHP-code at the begin of your index.php:

Code:

if 
(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL']))
{
    $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = 
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
}

Without it, you can have some troubles with Joomla and ISAPI_Rewrite.

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