Laravel Pretty URL purgatory - .htaccess

I've never had this issue before, setting up on a new work machine and getting some odd issues. Firstly I should point out that it was working fine and after making some seemingly unrelated edits the routing without index.php became an issue.
I enabled:
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
my htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Ive tried a bunch of combinations of this based on stack overflow gthreads. An hour on this seems too long, I can't figure out what's going on.

Step 1 would be to make sure Apache's rewrites are actually working. Try creating a file in your web root named bar.php
#File: bar.php
<p>Hello Bar</p>
And then creating the following in your .htaccess file.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule foo.php bar.php [L]
</IfModule>
And then try loading the URI foo.php on your server
http://mysite.example.com/foo.php
If your web server correctly redirects to bar.php, then you know Apache's setup correctly. If it doesn't, it means rewrites aren't on. Once you know if rewrites are on or off you'll know where to concentrate your debugging.

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Symfony htaccess hiding app.php

The following .htaccess was able to allow my symfony project domain to be served without app.php in the URL, as intended. The only issue is that it is breaking all other (non-symfony related) urls and causing an internal server error.
Right now, after deleting the .htaccess file from the server, all my domains work but the project tied to symfony must be accessed using app.php in URL ?
Is it possible to modify the below .htaccess to rewrite the symfony url to not require app.php in the URL while still allowing for all other URLs, not tied to symfony, to be accessed successfully?
Not sure this is needed, but assume the domain tied to symfony is www.apples.com.
Thanks in advance!
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
# Explicitly disable rewriting for front controllers
RewriteRule ^app.php - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Change below before deploying to production
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /app.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Edit
I also tried the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
# Explicitly disable rewriting for front controllers
RewriteRule ^app.php - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Change below before deploying to production
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app.php [QSA,L]
DirectoryIndex index.php
</IfModule>
Right after
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
add
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
and set DirectoryIndex to index.php
A bit late to this game but I just found an Apache directive that saves so much time and makes your htaccess cleaner. The only caveat is you must have Apache 2.2.16+. To have all urls except valid files (images, etc) use app.php as a front controller use the FallbackResource directive.
<Directory "/web/symfony-project">
FallbackResource /app.php
</Directory>

Codeigniter and .htaccess file to ignore index.php

So I'm having a weird problem with .htaccess file and codeigniter. I have a wamp server on my local machine and there it works as expected. I have folders like that wamp/www/my_app and in my_app folder i have .htaccess file like that:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my_app/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
And in mine config.php gile i have:
$config['base_url']='';
$config['index_page']='';
$config['uri_protocol']='AUTO';
So i tried uploading that project to debian server on link like apps.myserver.com/my_app. I put my app to folder var/www/my_app. But the trick is that it doesn't work.
I have tried changing uri_protocol to all 5 options but no change. I also tried putting .htaccess file to var/www instead of var/www/my_app but no change either.
I keep getting that stupid 404 Not Found error when i try to access controlers without index.php prefix.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I checked phpinfo on server and found that mod_rewrite is in loaded modules.
The mod_rewrite module can have a couple different extensions. Your Debian server might use mod_rewrite.so instead of mod_rewrite.c.
That said, if you know mod_rewrite is enabled, and your application isn't being widely distributed and needs to check for it, you can safely eliminate the if checks.
You mentioned commenting out everything except lines 3 and 7 -- you commented out the RewriteBase definition, which broke stuff.
Try something simple, and work from there:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /my_app/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
Also, one variation you can do if an .htaccess is being weird, is to change everything after index.php to a query string. Note the ? here:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
You may or may not to change the uri_protocol config setting in CodeIgniter. My guess is you specifically won't, but it's info for others who are having .htaccess issues.

.htaccess adding new file

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /homepage/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /homepage/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
That is my .htaccess code. I have created new file in homepage/test.php and when i visit it from browser it give error of access,
i have tried by replacing index.php with test.php but it still not working.
Can some one explain me how this code work and why not my code is working.
i have deleted .htaccess but its still not working. What else file it can be.
Change
RewriteRule . /homepage/index.php [L]
to:
RewriteRule (.+) /homepage/index.php?page=$1 [L]
P.S. For this to work, your index.php needs to listen for $_GET['page'] and load the appropriate resource.
EDIT: without using the "?page=$1" your code will just display the index page for all requests that are not files or directories. I am not sure if that is what your were going for.

.htaccess and internal server error

I've been trying to set up .htaccess to create clean PHP URL. My goal is to achieve clean URLs within the folder CL.
.htaccess:
# Use PHP5 Single php.ini as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# This is the initialization
# For security reasons, Option followsymlinks cannot be overridden.
#Options +FollowSymLinks
Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# /CL/var1/var2/var3
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^CL/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ /CL/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2&var3=$3 [L,QSA]
# /CL/var1/var2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^CL/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ /CL/index.php?var1=$1&var2=$2 [L,QSA]
# /CL/var1
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^CL/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/?$ /CL/index.php?var1=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
However, for some reason, I get a 500 internal server error when y enter the folder CL. I've used similar .htaccess configurations in the past, but now its not working fore some reason.
Any ideas?
"I've used similar .htaccess configurations in the past, but now its not working fore some reason."
OK, so the ruleset works. I've just tested in on one my test VMs so it still works, so your problem isn't the mod_rewrite functionality in this .htaccess file. So where could it be?
Think laterally. A 500 status is usually a mod_rewrite loop. Have you got an .htaccess file in /CL? This could create a perdir indefinite loop.
Unfortunately DS suggestion of trying to get an answer on error_log content from a shared hosting provider for a $100 pa shared service is a no-no. Morale: set up a test VM on your PC to debug this stuff where you can get root access to the log as article here.

Godaddy: Rewrite with .htaccess

I have this htaccess setup on my clients site, they use godaddy
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L,QSA]
it worked fine on my MAMP but does not seem to work on the server
they have setup a subdomain like demo.example.com and the htaccess exists in the demo folder but I get 404 trying to get to page like demo.example.com/test but demo.example.com/test.php works fine so this tells me the htaccess is not work. does anyone know what I need to do to make this work ?
Try:
1) Add this line into your .htaccess: Options +FollowSymlinks
2) Add leading slash before $1, e.g. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
P.S. There are some "rumours" that GoDaddy may not pick up changes in .htaccess file straight away.
I would also suggest to define custom 404 error handler (simple PHP script) that may help with debugging this (put this line into your .htaccess):
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
404.php (as simple as this)
<?php
Echo "404\n";
phpinfo(INFO_VARIABLES);
The details there may help identify the issue.
UPDATE:
We have a domain name & hosting that we do not use which is about to expire. So I have logged in and tested these rules myself. Got it working straight away. Here is the setup I have:
Apache/1.3.33
Hosting Configuration: 2.1
PHP 5.x (did not bothered to check exact version)
Data Center: US Regional
.htaccess was already present and had only 1 line 9possibly left over from the site that was there originally):
addhandler x-httpd-php5 .phtml
These lines were added to .htaccess:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
I have created simple php file to check if it works. Called it echo.php. Then I have tried these URLs:
http://www.example.com/abcd -- saw error page (as expected)
http://www.example.com/echo -- saw my page -- echo.php (as expected)
The full physical path to the echo.php is: /home/content/b/u/y/buyxxxxxxx/html/echo.php; ftp/website root is /home/content/b/u/y/buyxxxxxxx/html/
Try this simple setup. DO not do anything complex until you solve this issue.
This is right way of play with .htaccess on godaddy
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1.php [L,QSA]
This answer on Stack Overflow might help you aswell:
Add this:
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews -Indexes
at the very top and give it a try.

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