Xetius's questions

We are currently using mod_proxy to proxy to proxy to the correct destination with the following line:

ProxyPass /my-path balancer://server/path/to/real/thing

However, a third party is sending us requests with the wrong content type. Getting them to change is not an option, so I thought that using mod_rewrite I would be able to do this with the following

RewriteRule ^/my-path(.*) balancer://server/path/to/real/thing$1 [P,T=text/xml]

However, this does not seem to be doing anything, and the rule does not appear to be being executed.

Is it possible to use mod_rewrite to achieve this, and am I setting this correctly for this purpose?

When I try to enable the FTP service in the preferences (File Sharing->Options->Share Files and Folders Using FTP) the check box enables and then disables again. The console is giving me the message :

16/04/2010 12:14:20 com.apple.coreservicesd[51] sh: launchctl: command not found

This indicates to me that it can't find the launchctl executable

launchctl is present in the folder /bin

/bin is set in the PATH variable for sh and bash shells and also in the ~/.MacOS/environment.plist

How can I fix this so that my preferences can find this so that I can enable the FTP service.

Edit: Following various suggestions, I have removed the environment.plist file from .MacOSX folder, run verify permissions / repair permissions from disk utility. I have created another administrator user and tried starting it for that user.

The permissions for launchproxy is:

-r-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel    60032 25 Jul  2009 launchproxy

and running the command /usr/libexec/launchproxy ftpd -l -n gives me:

launchproxy[964]: launch_msg(CheckIn): Operation not permitted