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Hey there!

Hiawatha version: Hiawatha v8.4, cache, Command Channel, IPv6, Monitor, reverse proxy, SSL, URL toolkit, XSLT
Operating System: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.9-1 (2014-02-01) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've recently switched my VHost from regular HTTP to HTTPS. Now, since I did that my script gets called twice. Following Scenario:

Script to run (in Bash.) : index.sh

#!/bin/bash
date +%s >> $logfile
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
echo ""

Configuration of Hiawatha:

CGIhandler = /bin/bash:sh
UrlToolkit {
ToolkitID = myname
RequestURI isfile Return
Match .* Expire 12 months
Match .*\.sh$ Expire 1 hours
Match .*\.css$ Expire 12 months
Match .* Rewrite /index.sh
}

VirtualHost {
Hostname = myhostname.com
WebsiteRoot = /var/www/info
StartFile = index.sh
AccessLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/info_access.log
ErrorLogfile = /var/log/hiawatha/info_error.log
ExecuteCGI = yes
UseToolkit = myname
UseGZfile = yes
PasswordFile = basic:/etc/hiawatha/users_info
RequireSSL = yes
}

What happens if I access "index.sh" on my server:

The access-log states following:

80.123.xxx.xxx|Thu 27 Feb 2014 18:10:13 +0100|200|72526|velvetpaw|GET /index.sh HTTP/1.1|Host: myhostname.com|Connection: keep-alive|Cache-Control: max-age=0|Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8|User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/30.0.1599.101 Safari/537.36|Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch|Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4,ja;q=0.2

The error-log does not state anything.

The $logfile, accessed via the Bash script writes the following:

1393521013
1393521013

I've come across this since I wrote a really simple "Access-Counter", that just increments a number in a file. However, when using SSL it always increments by 2 every time I access index.sh.

As soon as I disable RequireSSL = yes it stops doing that.

Any Idea? Config fault?

Please tell me if you need any more information!

Thank you for your time!

Weird, never heard of that before. Maybe it's the browser requesting /favicon.ico or something? Please, use a proxy like Fiddler2 to see what's going on.

Hello!

Thanks for your quick response!

You were right! It's requesting the favicon, which then gets rewritten to /index.sh. The solution was to put:

Match ^/(favicon.ico|robots.txt|sitemap.xml)$ Return

on top of my Rewrite rules!

(I feel a bit dumb now.)

Thanks for your assistance. Have a nice weekend.

You're welcome!