mod_rewrite for shared accelerators

Ok, finally fixed a few things on the newly deployed Cubicle Muses site. I mentioned in the last article that I was having some difficulty setting up redirects the way I wanted to. Turns out there were two reasons for my troubles.

First, I was using Joyent’s Virtualmin web-based console. I eventually came across an article on using mod_rewrite in .htaccess on Joyent and that solved my problems. The Virtualmin console is rather awkward to work with and doesn’t allow direct access to the config file, making some apache directives impossible to use.

The other part that puzzled me is that changes I made to the apache configuration via Virtualmin didn’t seem to take effect. Well, turns out for at least some configuration changes, they don’t. At least, Virtualmin doesn’t have apache re-read its configuration. However, adjusting the proxy setting does restart the webserver, and I was able to use that trick to get my config directives fixed and read.

So the site should be a bit more responsive and I should see less 404s now. If you came by for a look and Cubicle Muses was either down or looking rather odd, I apologize. Take another look and let me know what you think.