RewriteBase support?

[jburks725]

I'm working with 2.1.2 (Std) and am setting up WordPress (www.wordpress.org). I'd like to use clean URLs, and WP will auto-generate the Apache rewrite rules to support this. After forcing WP to think I'm using Apache, I can get it to write out to a .htaccess file and would like to copy the rules into the VH settings panel rather than leaving them in .htaccess (I've seen this suggested in several threads).

I've run into a small snag. LSWS doesn't seem to support the RewriteBase directive and this causes the the RewriteRules to fail unless I modify them manually to include the base in the matching pattern. For example, here is (part of) what WP wrote to my .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
...RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([^/]+).html/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&feed=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([^/]+).html/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^archives/([0-9]{4})/([^/]+).html(/[0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&page=$3 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Copying these rules into the VH configuration (leaving out the first several lines, up to the first RewriteCond) does not work. I get 404 errors for my Permalinks and the debug log shows that no patterns were matched. I noticed in the logs that the URLs passed into the pattern matcher all started with a /, so I modified one of the above rules to the following:

RewriteRule ^/archives/([0-9]{4})/([^/]+).html/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?year=$1&name=$2&paged=$3 [QSA,L]

Notice the leading slash at the beginning of the regex (^/arc... instead of ^arc...). This works--the pattern matches and the URL is rewritten correctly.

Given this information, and the fact that trying to put the "RewriteBase /" directive in the VH config seems to disable rewriting altogether, I'm left with the following options:

1) Leave the rewrite rules in .htaccess
2) Manually edit all of the RewriteRule lines to start the regex with /

Neither of these is particularly appealing as I'd like to "do the LSWS thing" and put the rewrite rules where they belong, in the VH configuration.

Please advise how I should proceed. Am I missing something where RewriteBase is supported? If RewriteBase is not supported, do you plan to add it?

Thanks,
Jason

P.S. - I love the server. So much nicer to work with than Apache and lighttpd. Still working on getting everything running, but so far everything looks great. Keep up the good work!

[mistwang]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for trying our product.

RewriteBase is only effective for per-directory rewrites, and ignored by vhost level rewrites.

There is one work around, instead of adding those rewrite rules to vhost level, you can create a static context with URI set to "/" and path to the document root, then add those rewrite rules under that context, RewriteBase should work then. Actually, it is not necessary for LSWS in most case. :-)

George Wang