Rewrite not doing anything at all?

[pcguru]

Hello again. =)

I'm trying to do some simple redirects with the rewrite feature on a virtual host. I've enabled rewirite in "Rewrite Control".

I do not understand what "Rewrite Map" is for unfortunately, the help is just confusing about that section. I have not filled in anything here.

I've added a rule to the "Rewrite Rules" section:
RewriteRule ^test$ /index.php?var=test [R]

Unforunately going to http://server/test simply gives a 404 error. What am I doing wrong? Using Litespeed 2.1.6.

[mistwang]

Full URL should be used in rewrite rules at vhost level, in your case, the rewrite rule should be:

RewriteRule ^/test$ /index.php?var=test [R]

However, when you use rewrite rules in a .htaccess or at context level, you need to specify a parital URL relative to that directory or context, like the one you used.

To debug a rewrite rule, you need to set Server error log "log level" to "info", and Rewrite "Log level" to "9", then you can find log messages in lsws/log/error.log to help you debugging your rules. :-)

George