Posted: 17 July 2008 at 10:57am | IP Logged

I have two sites with identical rules, apart from the VDir and category:

RewriteRule products/(.*)/(.*)\.[htm|html] /vDir/default.asp?category=category&service=ec-frame&opt=subcat&ct=$1&subcat=$2 [I,L,QSA]

One works as expected, the other doesn't.  From the log, the one that fails is not matching the rule.

This one works:

http://www.yournewshop.co.uk/products/clocks/mantel.html

Log says:

(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /products/clocks/wall.html
(1) Htaccess process request
(1) Htaccess process request d:\inetpub\wwwroot\ecommerce\website\.htaccess
(3) applying pattern 'products/(.*)/(.*)\.[htm|html]' to uri 'products/clocks/wall.html'
(1) escaping /ec-user/default.asp?category=ec-demo-runs&service=ec-frame&opt=subcat&ct=clocks&subcat=wall
(1) Rewrite URL to >> /ec-user/default.asp?category=ec-demo-runs&service=ec-frame&opt=subcat&ct=clocks&subcat=wall
(2) rewrite 'products/clocks/wall.html' -> '/ec-user/default.asp?category=ec-demo-runs&service=ec-frame&opt=subcat&ct=clocks&subcat=wall'
(2) internal redirect with /ec-user/default.asp?category=ec-demo-runs&service=ec-frame&opt=subcat&ct=clocks&subcat=wall [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

This one doesn't:

http://www/le-west.co.uk/products/equipment/training.html

And the log shows:

(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /products/equipment/training.html
(1) Htaccess process request 
(1) Htaccess process request d:\inetpub\wwwroot\le-west\website\.htaccess
(3) applying pattern 'products/(.*)/(.*)\.[htm|html]' to uri 'equipment/training.html'
(3) applying pattern 'search/(.*)\.htm' to uri 'equipment/training.html'

Something I noticed immediately is that for the one that works, the URI being considered includes "products/" and for the one that fails, it doesn't.

Neither .htacess file has a BASE directive, so they should both assume the site root, surely?

What's going on here?

Posted: 17 July 2008 at 11:19am | IP Logged

Vyacheslav wrote: Hi cleo-marc! Please try to add this code at the top of your config: Code: RewriteBase /

Yep- that's done it.  Any idea why the two sites have assumed different bases, though?  The documentation implies that RewriteBase is not needed!

Posted: 17 July 2008 at 11:34am | IP Logged

Vyacheslav wrote: Without RewriteBase, if you site placed in non-root directory, ISAPI_Rewrite automaticly sets RewriteBase to local path. But in your case, rule must have root base.

That's why I'm confused:  both sites are running from the website root.  One correctly assumes root relative, the other one doesn't.

One site runs from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\ecommerce\website\

The other from D:\inetpub\wwwroot\le-west\website\

They use exactly the same codebase with different datasets.

There is no RewriteBase directive in the yournewshop site, but it correctly processes the "products/" rule.  Weird.

I'll stick a RewriteBase / in all files from now on, just in case.

When would you want it set to anything else? I don't think I quite grasp what it's for.