Setting up External App Context

[artagesw]

Is there a way to direct only a specific file to an external app like lsphp? For example, I want to redirect /index (with no .php extension), but no other files in that directory, to php. So far, the only way I have been able to direct files to external applications is by mapping file extensions. I'm looking for something like Apache's "ForceType" directive.

[mistwang]

Yeah, just create a static context with uri "/index" then set the "Force MIME Type" to "application/x-httpd-php".

[artagesw]

I appreciate the quick response. Thanks!

[artagesw]

Hmmm. This isn't working for me. I set up a static context, url = "/index.html" location = "index.html", "Force MIME Type" = "application/x-httpd-php".

But the index.html page is getting served as text.

[mistwang]

Is there a script handler defined for ".php"? make sure to clear your browser cache.

[artagesw]

Originally Posted by mistwang

Is there a script handler defined for ".php"? make sure to clear your browser cache.

Yes. Accesing /index.php works fine (strangely, even though there is no index.php file).

In the help for "Force MIME Type" it says all files will be served as *static files.* Is this perhaps the problem?

[mistwang]

OK, we will check the "Force MIME Type" configuration, let's try a different approach now, remove "Force MIME Type" configuration, set "Add MIME Type" with "application/x-httpd-php .html".

[artagesw]

OK, I assume you meant "application/x-httpd-php html" (without the dot), right?

That doesn't work either.

http://www.mydomain.com/ is still served as text.

but...

http://www.mydomain.com/index.html is served as a 404 page.

I wonder if there is some interaction between this context and the rewrite rules in the virtual host?

The virtual host's rewrite rules look like this:

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) - [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.html

[artagesw]

I just discovered that if I change the context URI to "/" (instead of "/index.html") it works. But I assume that this will cause all .html files to be processed by php. I would like to set it up to process only the index.html file as php and all other html files as static html.

[mistwang]

Does index.html exist? I don't understand why it is served as 404, maybe you should turn on debug logging.

rewrite rules at vhost level does not have a rewrite base, you need to fix the last rewrite rule by giving the full URI.

You can force the MIME type by using rewrite rule as well.
That's another option.