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NetSUS: mod_rewrite not working

m_entholzner
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Posted on ‎12-06-2013 02:46 AM

Hey guys,

I got stuck with this problem. Customer is running a NetSUS 2.0 with two branches on it. (e.g. http://1.2.3.4/content/catalogs/index_root.sucatalog)

If I point clients directly to this URL, the sucatalog will not be found. On github I found that you have to create a .htaccess file in the root of the Reposado repository with the following contents:

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]

All right so far, I placed this in /src/SUS/html, restarted apache2 and nothing happend. When doing a "curl --user-agent "Darwin/12.5.0" http://1.2.3.4/content/catalogs/index_root.sucatalog" on the server, following answer is returned:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /content/catalogs/index_root.sucatalog was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at 10.145.6.25 Port 80</address>
</body></html>

So, I got stuck on this place. I created a .htaccess in multiple subdirectories of /srv/SUS/* but nothing changed.

Any hints on this? It's not practicable to redirect every OS to another SUS URL manually…

Thanks! :)

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richmac
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Posted on ‎12-06-2013 04:06 AM

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
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wyip
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Posted on ‎12-06-2013 09:30 AM

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 :)

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m_entholzner
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Posted on ‎12-11-2013 04:37 AM

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!

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