Apache config - ProxyPass and Alias

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Indico docs suggest this set of directives to put into Apache config file:

    AliasMatch "^/(images|fonts)(.*)/(.+?)(__v[0-9a-f]+)?\.([^.]+)$" "/opt/indico/web/static/$1$2/$3.$5"
    AliasMatch "^/(css|dist|images|fonts)/(.*)$" "/opt/indico/web/static/$1/$2"
    Alias /robots.txt /opt/indico/web/static/robots.txt

    SetEnv UWSGI_SCHEME https
    ProxyPass / unix:/opt/indico/web/uwsgi.sock|uwsgi://localhost/

The problem with this is that ProxyPass overrides any Alias directives and in reality everything goes to uwsgi.

I wanted to override /robots.txt alias but it did not work, this is how I discovered that ProxyPass takes precedence. To fix that issue for robots.txt I had to add line:

    ProxyPass /robots.txt !

before the ProxyPass / ....

Naturally all AliasMatch directives are ignored too, so all static files are served by uwsgi.

Just to let you know in case someone else encounters this issue.

Andy

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PR to the docs appreciated :slight_smile: We don’t use Apache ourselves…

Based on a quick google it seems like ProxyPass <anything from aliasmatch> ! disables it, but not sure if it supports the regexps.