Hello Ganesha, Wednesday, July 14, 2004, 1:40:14 AM, you wrote: I'm using mod_rewrite with zope but without maps. Can your describe in details your task? GS> Hi, GS> I came across a strange behavior of mod_rewrite while using with zope. GS> Although it is not a zope question, I was wondering if any of you have GS> run into this. We are using mod_rewrite to redirect the users to one of GS> the zope sites of a Zeo cluster. GS> The directive RewriteMap has unexpected behavior when it is used to GS> define more than one map with same map name in diffrent places. Normally GS> all the directives within a tag applies only to that tag. GS> For example: GS> <VirtualHost *> GS> ServerName www.foo.com GS> DocumentRoot /var/www/foo GS> RewriteEngine on GS> RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/foo.log GS> RewriteLogLevel 2 GS> RewriteMap map rnd:/etc/httpd/conf/foomap.txt GS> RewriteRule ^/Foo(.*) GS> http://127.0.0.1${map:IP}/VirtualHostBase/http/foo/$1 [L,P] GS> </VirtualHost> GS> <VirtualHost *> GS> ServerName www.bar.com GS> DocumentRoot /var/www/bar GS> RewriteEngine on GS> RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/bar.log GS> RewriteLogLevel 2 GS> RewriteMap map rnd:/etc/httpd/conf/barmap.txt GS> RewriteRule ^/Bar(.*) GS> http://127.0.0.1${map:IP}/VirtualHostBase/http/bar/$1 [L,P] GS> </VirtualHost> GS> The above is expected to work. However ModRewrite, does not read the map GS> file foomap.txt or barmap.txt everytime it needs it and it caches the GS> results after the first time it reads for faster operation. GS> The problem is the cache treats both the file as the same since they GS> have the same name! Hence if you visit foo.com first, the data stored in GS> foomap.txt is returned from the cache next time you visit foo.com or GS> bar.com. This causes apache to redirect into the wrong zope site. GS> Has anyone else experienced similar problems ? GS> thanks, GS> ganesh GS> Zeomega LLC GS> Open minds' Open Solutions GS> Plano, Texas, USA GS> Bangalore, India GS> phone: 972-731-6750 GS> http://www.zeomega.com GS> _______________________________________________ GS> Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org GS> http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev GS> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** GS> (Related lists - GS> http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce GS> http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) -- Best regards, Eugene mailto:el-spam@yandex.ru