Topic: RewriteMap prg: fail to launch on Windows

[sunils]

Helo everybody,

I was trying to do a simple url rewrite using RewriteMap with external program (Apache 2.2.4 on WinXP). How ever the externam program some how is never launched by Apache. There is no error in the error log, eventlog etc. rewrite.log says "map lookup FAILED". The program specified in RewriteMap prg: is never getting executed.

Here is the relevant part of my httpd.conf :
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Alias /vfolders "D:\vfolders"
RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 9

RewriteMap testmap "prg:c:/perl/bin/perl.exe c:/Apache2/bin/rewritemap.pl"

<Directory "D:/vfolders>
Options Indexes Multiviews FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Nothing"
AuthBasicProvider file
AuthUserFile conf/passwd
Require valid-user

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /vfolders/

RewriteCond ${testmap:%{REQUEST_URI}:%{REMOTE_USER}} ^REWRITE$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /vfolders/%{REMOTE_USER} [R,L,NS]

</Directory>
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Here is the listing of rewritemap.pl
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#!c:\\perl\\bin\\perl.exe
$|=1;
while(<STDIN>){
chomp; my ($URI,$USER)=(split /:/);
if ( $URI=~/^\/vfolders\/$USER/ ) {
print "NOREWRITE:$URI:$USER\n";
} else {
print "REWRITE:$URI:$USER\n";
};
}
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Here is an edited portion of rewrite.log when I try to fetch
curl -v -I -u sunils:password http://localhost/vfolders/shruthi/
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18:57:21 initial (3) [perdir D:/vfolders/] strip per-dir prefix: D:/vfolders/shruthi/ -> shruthi/
18:57:21 initial (3) [perdir D:/vfolders/] applying pattern '^.*$' to uri 'shruthi/'
18:57:21 initial (5) map lookup FAILED: map=testmap key=/vfolders/shruthi/:sunils
18:57:21 initial (4) [perdir D:/vfolders/] RewriteCond: input='' pattern='^REWRITE$' [NC] => not-matched
18:57:21 initial (1) [perdir D:/vfolders/] pass through D:/vfolders/shruthi/
18:57:21 subreq (1) [perdir D:/vfolders/] pass through D:/vfolders/shruthi/index.html
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As seen above, key for the look up has been correctly evaluated, but perl script never gets executed. I have tried compiled version of the script also, but result is same.

Any clue?

TIA

Sunil

[James Blond]

You should ask in the mod rewrite forum