Hi,

I'm running into a mod_rewrite problem of the type 'it works on Windows but not on Ubuntu Hardy Linux'. I also cannot seem to be able to activate logging for mod_rewrite so it's really hard to debug the issue.

I have a directory /assets/54/images/sprite.png that needs to be rewritten to the internal directory /assets/images/sprite.png

I have a virtual host assets.mysite.com and I'm currently using .htaccess to block access to the demo site.

This is my code for mod_rewrite

NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
      ServerName assets.mysite.com
        ServerAdmin webmaster@mysite.com

        DocumentRoot /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.24/webapps/ROOT/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
        </Directory>
        <Directory /usr/share/apache-tomcat-6.0.24/webapps/ROOT/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride All
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
            
      <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine On
      RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} assets/.*
      RewriteRule ^.*assets/([^/]+)/(.*)$  /assets/$2   
      </IfModule>
        </Directory>
[...]

When I request /assets/10/ I correctly see a directory display with all the subdirectories of /assets. However, when I click on one of the sub directories, e.g. images I get and see the /assets directory again
/assets/10/images
If I click again
/assets/10/images/images etc et etc

Any suggestions are appreciated. Also with regards to getting logging activated. When I insert the logging command in the Virtual host directory, I get an error and when I put it in apache2.conf, I get an empty file.

Very frustrating all in all. And I've run out of things to try.

Cheers,

Marc[/code]

I think you want ^.+ not ^.*

and If I'm not mistaken rewrite rules should go inside <directory> tags