Bug 39928

Summary: port no detected when file name not in URL
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Robert Bruce <rob>
Component: mod_vhost_aliasAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal CC: mengel
Priority: P2 Keywords: MassUpdate
Version: 2.2.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://apachebug.tdd.org.uk:81

Description Robert Bruce 2006-06-28 23:18:46 UTC
I have apache listening on two ports, 80 and 81. I use port 80 for live
websites, port 81 for test websites.

If the filename is missing for the URL, then the port value is not set and the
default 80 is used.

I am using the following for my mass host rule

VirtualDocumentRoot /home/sites%p/%0/public_html

I have

/home/sites80/apachebug.tdd.org.uk/public_html
/home/sites81/apachebug.tdd.org.uk/public_html

if I visit http://apachebug.tdd.org.uk:81 I get the index.html for
http://apachebug.tdd.org.uk

http://www.tdd.org.uk:81/index.html returns file not found, expected as it
doesn't exit (the directory is actually empty)
Comment 1 Marc Mengel 2008-06-06 15:05:33 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

We are seeing the same problem, in particular when we should be looking for a DirectoryIndex, it looks in the port 80 server's VirtualDocumentRoot, rather than in the port-numbered server we are coming from.
Comment 2 Marc Mengel 2008-11-07 08:05:17 UTC
Okay, so after much confusion, I have a workaround for this.

First, you have to use Rewrite based mass virtual hosting, and
second you have to set an environmnent variable (i.e. MY_PORT).

So instead of:
  VirtualDocumentRoot /appora/products/web/%0:%p/html
  VirtualScriptAlias  /appora/products/web/%0:%p/cgi-bin

You need:
  RewriteCond %{ENV:MY_PORT} ^$ 
  RewriteRule (.*) $1 [env=MY_PORT:%{SERVER_PORT}]
  RewriteMap lowercase int:tolower
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/cgi-bin/
  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$   /appora/products/web/%{SERVER_NAME}:%{ENV:MY_PORT}/html/$1      
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /cgi-bin/
  RewriteRule ^/(.*)$   /appora/products/web/%{SERVER_NAME}:%{ENV:MY_PORT}/$1 [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]

This is the cook book Rewrite based mass virtual hosting, except for the part about setting MY_PORT if it isn't set, and using MY_PORT instead of SERVER_PORT.

Basically, somewhere the SERVER_PORT stuff gets lost when doing things like doing an index.html lookup, but the MY_PORT environment variable doesnt.
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