HI.

• My first guess is that your server is wanting your pattern to be ^api instead of ^/api as the difference is based on server setup.  but the rule looks like it applied based on the log file.
• My second guess is that the rule IS applying properly, but your are loosing the rest of the url by not having the api/(*) used correctly (where the remaining pattern is applied to /index_rest.php/$1)

In both possibilities above, if the pattern did trigger a match then there would be confusion about why the [L] would not stop the matching (unless therea re stray additional ReqriteEngine On directives, which, I believe, will reset the parser).

A 400 error further suggests that the answer is in your final rewrite rule as 400 is related to some jumbled/messed up request, so I suspect that the final rewrite is somewhat mangled.

The answer will most likely be more apparent if we don't have to make assumptions about the exact way the rewrite rules are applied.  So, without exposing anything super-secret, could you please upload your rewrite rules as you have them in your .htaccess or xxx.conf file?

Regards,

David 
 

Modified on Wednesday 04 July 2012 9:24:21 am by David Ennis

Thanks.

Here are the current RewriteRules:

RewriteRule ^/api/ index_rest.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/index_rest\.php - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)?content/treemenu.* index_treemenu.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?storage/images(-versioned)?/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|flash|images|lib|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/storage/packages/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/favicon\.ico - [L]
RewriteRule ^/w3c/p3p\.xml - [L]
RewriteRule .* /index.php

Hi Jon

Are you in URI or VHost mode ? I mean do you have some subfolders after http:// and before /api ?

No sub folders. It just goes straight into /api eg. http://domain.com/api

Do you run PHP as an Apache module or with FastCGI ?

Apache module.

Quote from Jon Staines :

Thanks.

Here are the current RewriteRules:

RewriteRule ^/api/ index_rest.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/index_rest\.php - [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+/)?content/treemenu.* index_treemenu.php [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?storage/images(-versioned)?/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/([^/]+/)?cache/(texttoimage|public)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/share/icons/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/extension/[^/]+/design/[^/]+/(stylesheets|flash|images|lib|javascripts?)/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/(stylesheets|images|javascript)/[^/]+/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/packages/styles/.+/thumbnail/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/var/storage/packages/.* - [L]
RewriteRule ^/favicon\.ico - [L]
RewriteRule ^/w3c/p3p\.xml - [L]
RewriteRule .* /index.php

Rewrite rules can be tricky depending on other modules and configurations.

some permutations that may work for you:

• RewriteRule ^api/(.*) /index_rest.php/$1 [R=302,NC]
• RewriteRule ^/api/(.*) /index_rest.php/$1 [R=302,NC]

NOTE: for my setup, the first is probably right, but for others, the second one (leading slash). For others, some other version in a similiar fashion.  Yes, the pattern match and replacement with the $1 should not be needed, but I find that the above is safest against variations in server setup.

NOTE: in your version, you are missing the content that you want to add the 'additional_path_info' with (path info after the file index_rest.php)

NOTE: even if the above for you were meant to work, you consume the leading slash in your apttern match and then do not start the replacement with a leading slash (you have "index_rest.php" instead of "/index_rest.php", so the server will rewrite that to [root]/index_rest.php -p in my case /var/www/index_rest.php

NOTE: Why the R=302? I use the 302 redirect modifier so that I can debug by seeing what the rewrite is.  I often use this in conjunction with wget in debug mode

Many thanks, it now works. In the end I've needed this:

RewriteRule ^/api/(.*) /index_rest.php/api/$1 [NC,L]

I removed the R=302 once it was working.

Quote from Jon Staines :

Many thanks, it now works. In the end I've needed this:

RewriteRule ^/api/(.*) /index_rest.php/api/$1 [NC,L]

 

I removed the R=302 once it was working.

WhoHoo!!  And another one hit out of the park   Glad we could help.

-David