UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Look for the following line in your config files:

Code:

LoadModule rewrite_module      modules/mod_rewrite.so
RewriteLogLevel                ###
RewriteLog                       <path>

Where ### is a number from 0 to 9 and <path> is an absolute or relative path to a file where you will keep your Rewrite logs. Change ### to 3 or greater, and set path to an existing file that can be written to by your master HTTP user.

When you start/restart the server, do you see any messages in the error_log file? (which might be in /var/log/http/error_log). How about in the rewrite_log file?

Thanks for the Instruction. As you mentioned I have activated module and created the log file. Contents of the log file look like this.

66.000.00.100 - - [04/Feb/2009:21:01:26 --0900] [www.mydomain.edu/sid#8176058][rid#82cefd8/initial] (1) [per-dir /home/dir/username/public_html/pa_archive/] pass through /home/dir/username/public_html/pa_archive/

That's the rewrite log. So somehow you were managing to configure the ReWrite module without enabling it. I can only imagine that your HTTP server was silently ignoring the error. Anyway, you have it working now.

Actually it is not working yet. User can voluntarily type https: in order to access securely as root for http and https are the same. I am sure i missing something here but could not see.

Well, now that the Rewrite log file is working, what do you see with "foobar" or https? Surely you see some lines in the rewrite pertaining to these?

I give up. Thanks a bunch for your help. Instead I created different root directory for https needed sites. It is not highly efficient but works for now.

Now I am running into another problem. I set
And I got redirect loop error on firefox. IE even does not do anything.