RewriteCond: cannot compile regular expression (after upgrade apache to 2.4.54)

[Zhenyapan]

Hello,

Centos 7, Apache (mod_php) was upgraded from 2.4.49 to 2.4.54 after that error log start filling with error reports:
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[Thu Jun 16 23:25:09.039564 2022] [core:alert] [pid 15282] [client 74.125.151.103:0] /home/agro/domains/agro.tld/private_html/.htaccess: RewriteCond: cannot compile regular expression '/\\index\\.php.*'
[Thu Jun 16 23:25:10.164514 2022] [core:alert] [pid 17878] [client 74.125.151.107:0] /home/agro/domains/agro.tld/private_html/.htaccess: RewriteCond: cannot compile regular expression '/\\index\\.php.*'
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with htaccess like this:
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Options -Indexes

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /ims.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/_files.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/favicon\.ico.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\index\.php.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\ims\.php.*
RewriteRule ^.* /ims.php [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/ims.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/_files.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/favicon\.ico.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\index\.php.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\ims\.php.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/robots\.txt.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/sitemap\.xml.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/receiver\.html.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/sitemap_1\.xml.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/sitemap_2\.xml.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/sitemap_imex\.xml.*
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/uploads.*
RewriteRule ^.* /index.php [L]
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Nothing changed in webserver configs afer updgare. So I must create custom_versions.txt and recompile/downgrade Apache to 2.4.51 - all works fine now!
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Can anybody say what's wrong in new Apache version so it don't want to work with asterisks "*"?
Thanks!

 

[Zhenyapan]

nobody faced same issue?
as I see somebody added new bug |66124|New|Nor|2022-06-15|Apache newer than 2.4.52 does not work with mod_php|
there: https://lists.apache.org/thread/5d3378o0m44hqnlcb6h7f6qjt8w34q2y

 

[wattie]

Not an expert in regex, but this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/\index\.php.*

looks wrong to me as \ is used to escape character and it is followed by i (from index) which I believe is not to be escaped.

 

[Zhenyapan]

looks wrong to me as \ is used to escape character and it is followed by i (from index) which I believe is not to be escaped.

so something changed in apache syntax? I checked apache changelog and didn't find anything about this. But i's only one user/domain affected from more than 1200 domains on updated servers, rest will wait till apache 2.4.55 maybe it will solve this.