Rewriterule Fails After Php Upgrade

[alexfung]

My pages worked fine last week. After the weekend upgrade it broken. I think I've narrowed it to the .htaccess.

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule (.*)\.x.l$ http://bank.alexfung.info/loadxxl.php [PT]

 

The idea is, all requests for .xml and .xsl files will be routed to this php, which then file_get_contents() the files from a read directory that the http demon is told not to access.

 

I have reduced the php to read:

 

$uri=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];

echo $uri;

exit;

 

but still:

URI = loadxxl.php: runs correctly

URI = xxx.xml: gets "400 Bad Request" <-- why?

URI = xxx.xxx: gets "404 Not Found" as expected

 

Any ideas why this would fail after the PHP upgrade?

[TCH-Bruce]

Are those the only 2 lines in your .htaccess file? Could be something else in there is causing the failure.

[SteveW]

Is there a specific reason you're using the [PT] passthrough flag? If you don't do any subsequent processing that requires it, you could try removing it.

 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule \.x[ms]l$ http://bank.alexfung.info/loadxxl.php [NC,L]

 

There are two potential sources of different behavior,

The new PHP version, and

Apache 1.3 -> Apache 2.

You've reduced the PHP file to the bare bones, so differences in the new Apache might be the more likely cause.

 

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Edited June 1, 2009 by SteveW