Odd problem with mappings

dev support
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Hi All,

This morning, two of our Lucee servers suddenly developed an odd problem, after an apache restart. Other servers are working fine.

When looking for a file, the webroot part of the path is doubled up, so instead of looking for /my/system/webroot/file.htm, lucee is looking for /my/system/webroot/my/system/webroot/file.htm. Every request throws a “missinginclude” exception.

All servers have a virtual mapping of / to {web-root-directory}. All other config for Apache and Tomcat appears to be identical.

If we change the virtual mapping of / to /, it works and if we delete the virtual mapping for /, it works.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Regards Peter

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hmm, which version of Lucee, please always mention that when asking for help

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Currently 5.3.6.68

We’ve tested on UNIX and Windows servers, and everything seems to work without a virtual mapping for /. Is it redundant?

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try LUCEE_MAPPING_FIRST = true

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Thanks. We just tried that and still get the same problem. It only works if we remove the mapping for “/” altogether. Is there any issue doing that?

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Hey,
we have been observing a very similar problem since last week, but with CFWheels’s default /app mapping. The path also gets duplicated just like the OP described.
There is no physical directory with the name /app, so I guess @Zackster 's suggestion won’t help here either.
Lucee version 5.3.9.141.

We are yet to figure out what’s triggering this issue and to build a proper repro case, as it seems to crop up rather randomly.

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Thanks FKL. Good to know we are not alone. We were particularly worried because this strange behaviour coincided with a huge DDOS attack on our service.