[HCoop-Discuss] domtool and rewrite rules.

[Adam Chlipala]

Steve Johnson wrote:
> On 2/2/08, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
>   
>> Steve Johnson wrote:
>>     
>>> This really helped..  But, I don't see N or NEXT in there for
>>> rewriteRule, just for rewriteCond..  Is it missing?  Also if you use
>>> NEXT or N, domtool errors.
>>>
>>>       
>> "N" is not allowed, because it makes it too easy to create an infinite
>> loop which ties up an Apache process until we restart Apache.
>>     
>
> Okay, so any suggestions on a work around?  This basically cripples my
> site migration.
>   

No, I don't have an easy suggestion.  I hope you agree that it's no good 
if a bug in one member's popular site can stall Apache for everyone, and 
an infinite-looping rewrite set can do exactly that.

We know that it's possible to do what you want to do, because members 
can write their own web servers, which Apache proxies.  The question is 
just how to make this easy, and that might require some new infrastructure.