apache and mod_rewrite

[Darin Perusich]

ok, i've finally figured what i need to set in the webclients config 
file to get it to push users to a valid url. it's something that i know 
i tried but i guess i didn't whack apache with my kill -HUP stick when i 
made the change, hehe.

Robert Meyer wrote:
> I recently had my introduction to rewrite rules when I had to deal with
> a php package that had the tendancy to use '.../form.php/file.txt' as
> a means of passing 'file.txt' to 'form.php'.  Not a pretty thing but
> there's stuff on the web to explain it.
> 
> I CAN say that putting port number in the URL is really not going to help
> you.  The SSL server is sitting on port 443 and connecting to
> http://site.xxx.com:443 should always simply fail 'cuz the browser is
> not prepared to establish an SSL connection.  You'll never get to the
> rewrite rule 'cuz apache ain't listenin'.  You need to find out who's
> handing out the URL and whack it with a stick.
> 
> Sorry, I'm a bit punchy, today...
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> 
> --- Darin Perusich <darinper at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> 
>>hello,
>>
>>i'm trying to write a mod_rewrite rule to fix problem that i'm running 
>>into with an app on an ssl site. this app, a web calendar client is 
>>working fine under ssl, when you logout it kick's you out to a user 
>>defined page. during the logout process it tries to push you to a page 
>>with the following url: http://calendar.domain.com:443/logout.html, this 
>>produces a 400 Bad Request error from apache. the entire error is:
>>
>>Bad Request
>>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
>>
>>Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port.
>>Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please.
>>Hint: https://calendar.cognigencorp.com:443/
>>
>>the rule i'm trying to write should take http://%{SERVER_NAME}:443 and 
>>write to https://%{SERVER_NAME}:443, so far i'm not having any luck.
>>
>>anyone have experience writting these rules?
>>
>>-- 
>>Darin Perusich
>>Unix Systems Administrator
>>Cognigen Corp.
>>darinper at cognigencorp.com
>>
>>
> 
> 
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-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com