RewriteRule collision

in our 2 recent post about SuSE 9.3 and Plesk 8, we explained how to install AWstats and how to fix the favicon.ico and robots.txt log-spamming. unfortunately our 2 posts collided and prevented AWstats from working. we had to adjust the RewriteRule a little bit.

#place this file in /etc/apache2/conf.d and restart
#apache. gets rid of the annoying 404 entries in the
#error_log if favicon.ico or robots.txt are not present
<DirectoryMatch /srv/www/vhosts/([^/]*)/https?docs>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var [L]
</DirectoryMatch>

new version:

#place this file in /etc/apache2/conf.d and restart
#apache. gets rid of the annoying 404 entries in the
#error_log if favicon.ico or robots.txt are not present
<FilesMatch "^(favicon\.ico|robots\.txt)$<span></span>">
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var [L]
</FilesMatch>

the only difference is, that the new version is more precise and not as widespread as the former one. this fixed the problem for us. feel free to use it.