mod_rewrite redirects the wrong way

[marduk21]

Hi!

I try to get CMSMS working with mod_rewrite enabled. Everything works fine, besides one thing. I have a page named sitemap and a file called sitemap.xml.gz. Now if I go to http://www.k-d-w.org/sitemap/  an error message is displayed and the apache log says:

File does not exist: /is/htdocs/wp1075967_82SQVOPJHD/www/sitemap.xml.gz

This behaviour is very weird to me and don't have any clue what could have gone wrong. Hopefully, someone here can help me with this.

I uploaded the following htaccess file:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

[Pierre M.]

Hello marduk21,

By trying .org/sitemap/ I get your 404.
By trying .org/sitemap I get a 200 OK response :
Server: Apache/...
Content-Location: sitemap.xml.gz
Vary: negotiate
TCN: choice
...
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-Encoding: gzip

This means two things too me :
-your webserver has Transparent Content Negociation (TCN) enabled (and mod_deflate too). When /name is requested, it serves the /name.xml.gz flavor if available.
-your first rewrite rule (adding a trailing slash) is shadowed by TCN or you .htaccess is somewhat inactive.

Sorry to ask this, but does your .htaccess file have its dot prefix ? You write "htaccess" and not ".htaccess".

If your dot is OK, why not puting your whatever.xml.or.not files in /some/subfolder ?

BTW, why not use an URL scheme with ".html" page suffix ? Pages(.html) would not have names conflicting with uploaded files.

Pierre M.

[marduk21]

Hi!

Thanks for your help! I changed the suffix to ".html" and the sitemap URL know works, too.
Nevertheless, the link to the RSS feed doesn't work now. Here's my new .htaccess:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

[Pierre M.]

Hello again,

if you like ".html" postfixed URLs, why do you still try to add trailing slashes ? I don't see your first rewriteconds and rewriterule in the manual or sample .htaccess.

This should be enough for the XML feed and pages.html :

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

#try to rewrite your specific news XML feed URL (/mynews.xml)
RewriteRule ^mynews\.xml$ index.php/news/rss [L]
#or may be [QSA] instead of [L] depending on how news categories are handled

#try the usual case
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
#it may require (uncomment it) this additional condition for news items to show :
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^/news/(.+)$
RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

Hope it works <;^)

Pierre M.

[marduk21]

Your suggestion didn't work, but I found http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... retty_URLs and changed my .htaccess to

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^News/rss(.+)$ index.php?page=News/rss$1 [S=1]

# Rewrites urls in the form of /parent/child/
# but only rewrites if the requested URL is not a file or directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-/]+)\.html$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]

Now it works perfectly, thanks for your help.