Bug#447264: marked as done (apache2.2-common: icons do not work on virtualhost with mod_rewrite on)

Your message dated Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:25:58 +0100 with message-id <200711101125.59215.sf@sfritsch.de> and subject line Bug#447264: apache2.2-common: icons do not work on virtualhost with mod_rewrite on has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: apache2.2-common
Version: 2.2.3-4+etch1
Severity: normal

I believe this can be solved by changing /etc/apache2/apache2.conf to read:

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    <Directory "/usr/share/apache2/icons">

                        Options Indexes MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch

So, basically adding SymLinksIfOwnerMatch to /usr/share/apache2/icons. I am not sure why this works, or why this is needed, but it solves the issue.

• System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rvdb Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on:

ii  apache2-utils              2.2.3-4+etch1 utility programs for webservers
ii  libmagic1                  4.17-5etch3   File type determination library us
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mime-support               3.39-1        MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools                  1.60-17       The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  procps                     1:3.2.7-3     /proc file system utilities

apache2.2-common recommends no packages.

• no debconf information

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On Saturday 10 November 2007, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> > From the source it appears that this error message can only
> > appear when you have RewriteRules in either .htaccess,
> > <Directory> context, or <Location> context. So look for those.
>
> Thanks for that pointer. Now I found the offending rules, inside a
> site-enabled file for my webmail virtual host:
>
> <IfModule rewrite_module>
> <IfModule ssl_module>
> <Location />
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !^on$ [NC]
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^webmail [NC]
> RewriteRule . https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
> </Location>
> </IfModule>
> </IfModule>
>
> When I move those rules inside the <Virtualhost> tags, everything
> works. I still don't understand how these rules could have caused
> this problem. What do these rules have to do with symlinks for the
> /icons directory?

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It is probably a side effect of how Location and Directory contexts are merged. To cite the documentation: "Although rewrite rules are syntactically permitted in <Location> sections, this should never be necessary and is unsupported."

Thanks for posting the solution. Since this is not a bug I am closing the report.

Cheers,
Stefan

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