Re: fancy redirects / 404 passthrough

I'm almost wondering if the apache backend is presenting your 404.

Because there are a few issues that just glare at me:

1) the url has a ? -- tux hands that to the backend
2) php is probably set to redirect in tux.mime.types and would pass to
the backend
3) the existing domain.com/username doesn't exist AND you say --> APACHE
<-- rewrites it to ShowPage.php?user=   mod_rewrite in this case would
probably do a local redirect rather than a 302 redirect.

You've asked for tux to strip the query string off of the url being
passed, but your apache process can do that.

so the behavior you are documenting -- i.e. TUX dropping the 404 -- sure
seems to be against everything I have ever observed.  There are times I
have seen tux just drop the connection, but usually when there was a
hostname where there was no IP/domain.com directory or something like
that.

show us the mod_rewrite
what type of virtual hosting do you have tux set to do?  
are there any symlinks?

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:55, human bn wrote:
> Sure, basically I have 40,000 pages created by the
> same PHP file.  They are accessed via
> site.com/[username] but those URL's do not exist -
> Apache transparently rewrites them to
> site.com/ShowPage.php?user=[username]
> 
> So I figured the easiest way to have Tux duplicate
> this behavior would be to just have it fall through to
> Apache whenever a file/directory is not found.  Except
> Tux seems to always handle it as a 404 instead of
> having it fall through.