Litespeed .htaccess performance question

[tseven]

Is there an advantage of specifying my rewrite rules direclty in the vhost config of litespeed rather than in a .htaccess file?

Perhaps it's quicker, or gets cached etc?

Thanks

[mistwang]

Yes, it is always a good idea to avoid using .htaccess.

[tseven]

That's what I thought.

I'm trying to run these rewrites for my drupal 5.7 site and after turning on logging I think I've found the problem.

The rewrite:
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

The error is:
[REWRITE] Source URI: '/providers' => Result URI: 'index.php?q=/providers'

It would apear that it's grabbing the entire string of '/providers' with the forward slash, when it should only be 'providers'.

This is the exact code which works when placed in the .htacess file:
<Directory /www/domain.com/public>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
</Directory>


I've tried it with and without the <directory> part,.. with and without the RewriteBase on.

I get this error in firefox:
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[sh0ck]

Not sure but the regex you are using will always take the entire strings its passed from begining( ^ ) to end( $ ). Since not using an htaccess seems to be adding a / try maybe this regex which will only trap anything AFTER the / and insert it in variable $1.


RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]


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[mistwang]

The URI used for a rewrite rule in .htaccess is different from the rewrite rule configured at vhost level. Basically, the rewrite base will be removed from the URI before matches the URI with a rewrite rules in .htaccess.
You need to change the rewrite rule according like what Timothy suggested when you move a rewrite rule form .htaccess to vhost level.

[tseven]

Thank you sh0ck, that was solution, everything works well now.

Cheers :)