Sunday, June 1, 2008

Apache Rewrites and SetEnv

It seems that variables set with Apache's SetEnv (and hence SetEnvIf and BrowserMatch) are being ignored by RewriteRule and RewriteCond. The rumor has it to be a design issue. The only way i could find around this problem is to use the [E= rewrite rule directive.

#Use RewriteRule & RewriteCond as a replacment for SetEnv and BrowserMatch
#SetEnv browser="-ie"
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=browser:-ie]
#BrowserMatch "IE7" browser="-ie7"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "MSIE 7"
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=browser:-ie7]
#BrowserMatch "Firefox" browser="-moz"
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} "Firefox"
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [E=browser:-moz]

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/index%{ENV:browser}.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ cache/index%{ENV:browser}.html [L]


PS. If you need to debug rewrite rules you can add the following lines to your httpd.conf:
RewriteLog logs/rewrite.log
RewriteLogLevel 5

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