Rewrite to preserve query for local file

[kennethkalmer]

I’m trying to serve local copies of websites downloaded from the Wayback When Machine. Files were downloaded using the wayback_machine_downloader tool, and as a side effect are saved to disk as their original URL’s, including the query strings.

Typically it looks like this:

content.asp?MenuID=10
content.asp?MenuID=11
content.asp?MenuID=12
content.asp?MenuID=2&SubMenuID=14
...

I’ve been trying different incantations of rewrite to get this to work, but I simply can’t. Currently I’m stuck on this:

localhost:2015
browse
log stdout
errors stdout
tls off
rewrite {
  # r .*
  to {uri} {path}?{query} {path}
}

It simply will not serve up one of those files, it just returns a 404.

Any advice, or even just advice on how to get caddy to give more verbose logs to help inspect what is actually going on?

[tobya (Toby Allen)]

I dont think you will be able to create a rewrite directive to manage this as there is too much “exception” to the standard of how a webserver works.

However it would be resonably trival to write a php script that served the file from disk. Your caddy file could redirect to a index.php page which would then load the file from disk based on the path and query strings.

rewrite {
 to {path} {path}/  /index.php
}

a php file like this would do the trick

<?php

echo   file_get_contents($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];

This is untested, but something like this should work well.