Ezeyme's questions

I'm having an ssh tunnel connection which works fine from the command-line;

ssh -f -N -L 4444:to.somewhere.com:80 [email protected] -p 22

Now I'm trying to make this connect to connect on demand with xinetd. I've put this custom port in /etc/service (tool 4444/tcp), and made a config file in /etc/xinetd.d;

service tool
{
   socket_type     = stream
   instances       = 1
   wait            = no
   user            = root
   server          = /usr/bin/ssh
   server_args     = -f -N -L 4444:to.somewhere.com:80 [email protected] -p 22
   port            = 4444
   disable         = no
}

After restarting xinetd I try to connect to this poort with a wget and get the message;

bind: Address already in use

lsof -i nor netstat -a don't show any open 4444 on forehand.

I want to rewrite an url with mod_rewrite from http://www.server.com/directory/public to http://www.server.com/directory (where directory would be then directing to directory/public)

I've tried several things but I can't figure it out. Here is my configuration:

    <VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443>
            ServerAdmin [email protected]
            ServerName www.server.com
            DocumentRoot /var/www/server.com

        <Directory /var/www/server.com>
            RewriteEngine on
            RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/directory
            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /directory/public/ [L]
        </Directory>
    </VirtualHost>