Slash in URL causes endless loop

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Slash in URL causes endless loop

Postby mmoench » Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:11 am

Hi, I'm using the following rule with apache 2.2.9:
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+_[^\-]+)\-([^\-]+).*\.html$ $1.html?tag=$2 [N]

An URL like "1_a-a/1_a-a.html" is correctly rewritten to "1_a.html?tag=a/1_a"
and I would expect that the rewriter quits after this because the new URL does
not match the Rewrite-Rule but it does not. The rewriter gets stuck in an
endless loop and starts eating up memory which eventually leads to a server crash:

rewrite '1_a-a/1_a-a.html' -> '1_a.html?tag=a/1_a'
rewrite '1_a.html/1_a-a.html' -> '1_a.html/1_a.html?tag=a'
rewrite '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a-a.html' -> '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html?tag=a'
rewrite '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a-a.html' -> '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html?tag=a'
rewrite '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a-a.html' -> '1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html/1_a.html?tag=a'
(...)

The Bugzilla staff told me that this is a configuration issue and not a bug. So what am I supposed to do here? Mod_rewrite does not care about "RewriteOptions MaxRedirects" or "LimitInternalRecursion". And I don't really know what kind of URLs people are sending to my server. So how to avoid endless loops like this?
The solution I'm currently using to avoid frequent server crashes (the alexa-bot keeps trying URLs which crash my server every night) is to kill all apache-processes using > 400MB of memory via a perl script running in the background. But this is not very satisfying...
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Postby richardk » Fri Nov 07, 2008 11:52 am

What is your full mod_rewrite?

Try
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Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} ^$
RewriteRule ^([0-9]+_[^\-]+)\-([^\-]+).*\.html$ /$1.html?tag=$2 [QSA,L]
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