mod_rewrite errors in error.log

Hi folks!

Yesterday I upgrade to vB 3.5 (from 3.0.11). Afterwards I installed vBSeo (Great Hook-System!). This all works very nice.

But I have some problems with my moved image paths.
I always gets the following error:

Code:

[Tue Jan 03 18:31:13 2006] [error] [client 139.30.48.xxx] mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary., referer: http://www.xxx.de

I think this happens because a file doesn't exist.
Why does www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images/professional/misc gives no 404, but instead a 500 error (with this strange mod_rewrite thing in my error log).

With a 404 I could fix the files, but with this 500 I can't see whats missing.

Thank you for your help

Hello,

the "images/" folder should not be processed by vBSEO, please try to remove it from exclusion list:

in .htaccess file FIND:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/

and REPLACE WITH:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles)/

ok now I get a 404 - does this 404 get reported in the apache error log?
I think not...

But its hard for me to understand: Why remove the image path out of the exclude path? Nothing from admincp|modcp and also the images should be processed - so they are there in this statement.

ok now I get a 404 - does this 404 get reported in the apache error log?

The 404 errors may be reported in your error_log (depending on your server configuration).

Why remove the image path out of the exclude path? Nothing from admincp|modcp and also the images should be processed - so they are there in this statement.

There must be a apache configuration issue: in this case, the problem appears when the target file doesn't exists, while it is configured to be processed directly (non-rewritten) by mod_rewrite rules.

There must be a apache configuration issue

It's a standard apache httpd.conf. And I use the standard vbseo htaccess.

Take a look at this:

The error only occurs if somebody tries to access a file which is located in a non-existent folder.

e.g If you call
www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images/misc/ -->normal apache 403 forbidden
www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images/misc/test.jpg -->normal apache 404

this is all like it should be, but if I call
www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images/professional --> normal 404
www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images/professional/ --> vbseo takes it and 500 (in the error.log:
mod_rewrite: maximum number of internal redirects reached. Assuming configuration error. Use 'RewriteOptions MaxRedirects' to increase the limit if neccessary.)

and quite the same with:
http://www.apfeltalk.de/forum/images...ional/test.jpg --> 500 - see above

The difference is that the professional-folder is non-existent!

So I think the vbseo-htaccess is the "problem" - perhaps you can help me.
Thanks for your work!

On mine if I do that (remove images from that line in htaccess) I get:

http://www.alanwake.net/vb/images/misc/professional -> Normal 404
http://www.alanwake.net/vb/images/misc/professional/ -> Invalid forum detected.

Now the reason I say this is maybe something similar is happening on yours, but your forum style rewrite is affecting it.

Try put a .htaccess in your images directory with the following:

RewriteEngine Off

and see if it still happens.

archimedes,

it may be related to other apache directives in httpd.conf, like ErrorDocument, for instance.

Please try the following modification in your .htaccess:
FIND:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/

ADD BEFORE:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f

Thanks