NetSUS: mod_rewrite not working

I did originally look into this as a solution but found it to be unnecessary after writing a simple script to detect the OS and write the relevant sucatalog. I just deploy this one script to every Mac and voila. Apologies as this is not a solution to your actual question but rather a different approach. Ive been using this method for some time and have not had any issues with it so figured it might be worth a mention.

#!/bin/bash

os=$(sw_vers | grep ProductVersion | awk -F " " '{ print $2 }' | cut -d . -f1 -f2)

case "${os}" in
    10.5)
        defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://*yourserver*:80/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1_*yourbranch*.sucatalog    
    ;;
    10.6)
        defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://*yourserver*:80/content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1_*yourbranch*.sucatalog    
    ;;
    10.7)
        defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://*yourserver*:80/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1_*yourbranch*.sucatalog
    ;;
    10.8)
        defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL http://*yourserver*:80/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1_*yourbranch*.sucatalog
    ;;
    *)
        echo "OS not currently supported by this NetSUS, speak to your Administrator to add the new OS sucatalog"
    ;;
esac

Here's my documentation when I did it back on NetSUS 1.02; should be the same for NetSUS 2.0:

Enable mod_rewrite:

• Login to the NetSUS shell console as shelluser
• Run the command: sudo a2enmod rewrite

Modify the apache2 config file:

• Use sudo to open a text editor (vi, nano, etc. whatever works for you) and open the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
• Example: sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
• Find the section "<Directory />" which should be near the top
• Under that section, change the line AllowOverride None so that it reads AllowOverride All
• Save changes and close the file
• It should look something like this when complete:

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Create an .htaccess file:

• Use sudo to open a text editor again and create a file /srv/SUS/html/.htaccess
• Example: sudo vi /srv/SUS/html/.htaccess
• Enter the following into the .htaccess file, and save and close the file when done:

RewriteEngine On
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase  /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/8
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/index$1.sucatalog [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/9
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/others/index-leopard.merged-1$1.sucatalog [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/10
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/others/index-leopard-snowleopard.merged-1$1.sucatalog [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/11
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1$1.sucatalog [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/12
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1$1.sucatalog [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/13
RewriteRule ^index(.*).sucatalog$ content/catalogs/others/index-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1$1.sucatalog [L]

Restart the apache2 service:

sudo service apache2 restart

You should now be able to point all of your clients to http://{NetSUSaddress}/index{BranchName}.sucatalog* and it will automatically go to the appropriate version-specific catalog file

More info:

• https://github.com/wdas/reposado/blob/master/docs/URL_rewrites.txt
• http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/

EDIT - you made me realize I didn't update my documentation after Mavericks came out. Added a line to the htaccess file to account for the Mavericks catalog :)

Thanks for your answers!
@wyip: Unfortunately this does not work for me. Still the same errors as before. We've got much to do with Mavericks at the moment, so this will have to wait a bit longer.

@richmac: this one worked for me. I had a very similar script before, but your script takes care of multiple OS's, so I'm going to use this one.

Again, thanks to you guys!