Apache: Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects
 

Hi

I've just installed Apache 2.0.52, with:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/httpd --enable-so --enable-modules=all

My httpd.conf includes:
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<VirtualHost mydomain>
ServerAdmin f...@mydomain
DocumentRoot "/home/mydomain"
ServerName mydomain
ErrorLog logs/mydomain-error_log
CustomLog logs/mydomain-access_log common
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.html.var
<Directory "/home/mydomain">
php_flag allow_url_fopen 1
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc 0
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=15
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php #<-------- RULE!!!
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
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(I try to make Apache serve 'foo' as 'foo.php')

But when accessing 'http://mydomain/foo', I get no webpage,
but this error log:
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[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [debug] mod_rewrite.c(1778): [client
192.168.2.101] mod_rewrite's internal redirect status: 10/15.
[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [error] [client 192.168.2.101] Request
exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable
configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit
if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [debug] core.c(2748): [client 192.168.2.101]
r->uri = /favicon.ico.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php
[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [debug] core.c(2754): [client 192.168.2.101]
redirected from r->uri =
/favicon.ico.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php
[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [debug] core.c(2754): [client 192.168.2.101]
redirected from r->uri = /favicon.ico.php.php.php.php.php.php.php.php
[Mon Jan 24 10:47:59 2005] [debug] core.c(2754): [client 192.168.2.101]
redirected from r->uri = /favicon.ico.php.php.php.php.php.php.php
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If I remove the line 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=15', I get
a very similar error:
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[Wed Jan 24 10:31:29 2005] [debug] mod_rewrite.c(1778): [client 192.168.2.101] mod_rewrite's internal redirect status: 10/10.
[Wed Jan 24 10:31:29 2005] [error] [client 192.168.2.101] mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary.
[Wed Jan 24 10:31:29 2005] [debug] mod_rewrite.c(1778): [client 192.168.2.101] mod_rewrite's internal redirect status: 0/10.
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What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much.

Your rule will rewrite any filename to filename.php, including filename.php itself (so it will become filename.php.php and then filename.php.php.php and so on). In the case in your logfile apache is trying to bastardize the name of the favicon.ico (little image that displays next to your bookmark) image.


Håkan