Re: [Pound Mailing List] Too many redirects

Hmm, I'm not awesome at spotting that kind of issue (sounds like one of 
those things you stare at for hours before noticing something really 
obvious :) )

A good start would be to enable redirect logging in Apache as this will 
tell you exactly what is going on:

RewriteLog "/var/log/apache/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 5 # higher numbers give more info, 5 is good start


Also, have you tried watching the headers during the requests? I use 
firefox extension "live http headers" really great for finding this kind 
of issue.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/live-http-headers/

Chrome has something similar but it's not as good.

My personal preference is to do those simple redirects in Pound, as you 
are now doing, as it saves a pointless request to the backend.

Unfortunately Pound doesn't support paths in the destination 
(url.com/path.html -> url.com/newpath.html) or I would use it for all my 
redirects.

/A

On 2013-06-19 10:03, Martijn de Dood wrote:
> I've setup pound on my Debian Squeeze server (pound package from the
> repository 2.5-1) with the following config:
>
> ## Minimal sample pound.cfg
> ##
> ## see pound(8) for details
>
> ######################################################################
> ## global options:
>
> User"www-data"
> Group"www-data"
> #RootJail"/chroot/pound"
>
> ## Logging: (goes to syslog by default)
> ##0no logging
> ##1normal
> ##2extended
> ##3Apache-style (common log format)
> LogLevel0
>
> ## check backend every X secs:
> Alive30
>
> ## use hardware-accelleration card supported by openssl(1):
> #SSLEngine"<hw>"
>
> # poundctl control socket
> Control "/var/run/pound/poundctl.socket"
>
>
> ######################################################################
> ## listen, redirect and ... to:
>
> ## redirect all requests on port 8080 ("ListenHTTP") to the local
> webserver (see "Service" below):
> ListenHTTP
> Address 111.111.111.111 # My external IP
> Port80
>
> ## allow PUT and DELETE also (by default only GET, POST and HEAD)?:
> xHTTP0
>
> Service
> BackEnd
> Address127.0.0.1
> Port80
> End
> End
> End
>
>
> Apache is running on localhost port 80.
> When I visit my site via mysite.com all goes well. However when visiting
> my site via www.mysite.com the browser replies with too many redirects.
>
> The website on Apache has a .htaccess file which does the redirect from
> www.mysite.com to mysite.com
>
> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
> RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
>
>
> If I setup nginx as a reverse proxy I don't get too many redirects when
> requesting www, but I don't want nginx I like Pound more.
> What could cause the problem of the loop?
>
> I made a fix with this:
>
> Service
> HeadRequire "^Host: www.mysite.com$"
> Redirect 301 "http://mysite.com"
> End
>
> But I would like to know why the loop occurs and if there is a other
> solution.
>
>
>

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