405 Errors

[Chris Arnold <carnold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apache2 2.12 (?) on sles11 sp2. We have a vhost file with the following rule:

RewriteRule ^/$ http://192.168.123.2/

This rule points certain traffic to the ip for WSUS (windows software update services). The clients not using this rule work fine but the 2 that do use the rule fail with 405 error. I mention the whole WSUS thing to verify this is a rule/vhost error.

I expect apache to send http://updates.domain.com traffic to the WSUS server. What we get are 405 (method not allowed). From one of these 2 PC's, I can goto http://updates.domain.com/ and get the WSUS welcome pic, so apache appears to be sending that traffic to the WSUS server. I have asked on the WSUS forums too. Any idea as to why 405's?

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