[ic] Using Mod Interchange 2 questions

[Philip S. Hempel]

Kevin Walsh wrote:

>Philip S. Hempel [pshempel@linuxhardcore.com] wrote:
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>>Questions related to using mod interchange,
>>1. Will mod interchange help with the problems apache has with ssl and cgi
>>scripts?
>>    A. Qualify problem with cgi scipts and ssl: Certian browsers are not
>>able to setup a data session with ssl because of some bug with apache.
>>    B. I know if most users upgrade there browser this would be a mute
>>point, but I have recently found out there is no way to upgrade 3/4 of
>>the internet. Many mac machines can not have access to the newest
>>browsers if there OS version is not at OSX 10. Versions avaiable for
>>IE is 5.1 < OSX10 and after testing myself this does not work. Mozilla
>>still has problems on version prior to MAC OS 9. IE 5.0 and under has
>>problems under windows.
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>Perhaps you need to upgrade your Apache/mod_ssl.
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I am using version 1.3.26 of apache, I know 1.3.27 is out.
I am using version 2.8.10 of mod_ssl , I know 2.8.12 is out

I also use the unstable version of Debian and have put a bug report
in to the mod_ssl maintainer today as well. It seems as if Debian has ot
gotten around to upgrading Apache and mod ssl yet

Also at this time I am using interchange 2.9.3 cvs as of today with its 
include
version of mod interchange.

BTW this is a developement box that is not live. I am preparing for a 
possible upgrade
to our production server.

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>>2. If the previous is true, can mod rewrite be used with mod Interchange?
>>    A. Qualify mod rewrite: mod rewrite used with pasthrough not redirect.
>>     B. using mod rewrite to move site root to / and pass to /cgi-bin/store
>>
>>I have tested mod interchange with mod rewrite and what works with the cgi
>>does not work with mod Interchange, I had some thought that mod
>>Interchange was a very close replacement for the cgi since really the cgi
>>is used to talk to a socket any ways.
>>
>>If mod Interchange does not work with mod rewrite, can it be modded to
>>work if it will resolve the cgi and apache, ssl problem?
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>Can you show what you're trying to do?  I've never had any trouble
>mixing rewrite rules with mod_interchange.
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################### Making the  / the site root note: check above for other 
## This does requre scriptalias /bl /usr/lib/cgi-bin....
## NOTE: this is not redirect this is passthrough (no 301)
	    RewriteRule ^$ /bl/index.html [PT,L]
	    RewriteRule ^/$ /bl/index.html [PT,L]
	    RewriteRule ^/index\.html$ /bl/index.html [PT,L]
	    RewriteRule ^/bl/.* - [PT,L]
# next is to cover for old settings using /bl/
# no!	    RewriteRule ^/bl/.* - [PT,L]
#	    RewriteRule ^/bl - [PT,L]
# end old settings
# Stop rules - this "-" means do not parse
# next for interchange images
	    RewriteRule ^/interchange/.* - [PT,L]
# end images not sure untested
	    RewriteRule ^/pdf/.* - [PT,L]
# same for pdf
	    RewriteRule /sitemap.html - [PT,L]
    	    RewriteRule /robots.txt$ - [PT,L]
	    RewriteRule /blorp/.* - [PT,L]
	    RewriteRule /favicon.ico - [PT,L]
# same for sitemap previous 4 rules added by me
	    RewriteRule ^/.*images/.* - [PT,L]
# End Stop rules - this "-" means do not parse
	    RewriteRule ^/(.*) /bl/$1 [PT,L]
#### all of the above also need to be put in secure site

What occurs with this configuration is I see the uri for the links that 
are clicked
in the browser window but it always returns the index page of the site. 
Apache
logs even show what was selected from the browser.

192.168.1.232 - - [26/Nov/2002:21:29:31 -0500] "GET 
/ord/checkout.html?id=9QTrgUKK&mv_pc=3 HTTP/1.1" 200 7357 
"http://darkangel.linuxhardcore.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows 
NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823"

Interchange returns either errors such as (checkout) not found, this 
error is for
 anything that a sid is showing in browser or the index page is 
returned. I tried setting
URILevel 0 to see if this would create the desired effect, but only 
recieved less
errors and more index page.

This may just be a need to modify the way the pass throughs are handled
but not really knowing how mod interchange functions internally would 
require
much trial and error on my part to determine a proper configuration if 
this is the
case.

Thanks for your repsonse
If there is a need for any other information please let me know.

-- 
Philip S. Hempel