I am trying to get the .htaccess working in MAMP. The content of the .htaccess is a simple redirect line, but the entire .htaccess file seems to have no effect, even when I change it to contain invalid data.
Is there any settings within MAMP I need to change to enable .htaccess files?
In httpd.conf on /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache, find:
<Directory />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Replace None with All.
Restart MAMP servers.
Go to httpd.conf on /Applications/MAMP/conf/apache and see if the LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so line is un-commented (without the # at the beginning)
and change these
from ...
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName ...
DocumentRoot /....
</VirtualHost>
To this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin ...
ServerName ...
DocumentRoot ...
<Directory ...>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory ...>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I'm using MAMP (downloaded today) and had this problem also. The issue is with this version of the MAMP stack's default httpd.conf directive around line 370. Look at httpd.conf down at around line 370 and you will find:
<Directory "/Applications/MAMP/bin/mamp">
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
You need to change: AllowOverride None
To: AllowOverride All
If you have MAMP PRO you can set up a host like mysite.local, then add some options from the 'Advanced' panel in the main window. Just switch on the options 'Indexes' and 'MultiViews'. 'Includes' and 'FollowSymLinks' should already be checked.
The problem I was having with the rewrite is that some .htaccess files for Codeigniter, etc come with
RewriteBase /
Which doesn't seem to work in MAMP...at least for me.
I have MAMP v 6.6.2 (year 2022), and I was trying to make working php friendly URLs on my localhost Apache, by adding '.htaccess' file to my website root directory ("localhost/mywebsite/.htaccess"):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
Which didn't work. But I tested it on cPanel hosting on a real domain and it worked fine.
So I have tried to change httpd.conf with these advises:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/21411933/3936149 - didn't help
https://stackoverflow.com/a/7670598/3936149 - didn't help
https://stackoverflow.com/a/19204983/3936149 - didn't help
In the end I came up to an advise:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/16106140/3936149 - and it worked!
I simply commented out the second line of the code in my '.htaccess' (located at "localhost/mywebsite/.htaccess") file and that's it:
RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
After it started to work I reverted all the changes in httpd.conf file, I have done above, and it was still working.
Related
here i am stuck with a small problem. I have a site built in Yii framework. It runs without any problem with http protocol (the index.php in url is hidden and all urls work fine). I have hosted this in amazon ec2 services. i have the following lines in my .htaccess file
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
but when i use https to browse the site (note: i have it all configured) , the home page loads normally. but the other urls does not work and requires /index.php/ to be added. what am i missing here?
dying for answers.
thanks in advance.
To get mod_rewrite working not only mod_rewrite must be installed, but also check in the Apache directory config (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default on Ubuntu installed via apt-get) if the rule "AllowOverride None" exists in your project's directory config. If so, change it to "AllowOverride All".
#
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
**AllowOverride All**
mod_rewrite can be installed by remove comment from this line
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
After a long search for the .htaccess configurations, main file configurations, the solution was found in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled directory , in the default-ssl file. (thanks to Hemc's answer)
this is what i did. this may help some others:
first move to the apache's sites-enabled directory
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
then open default-ssl file
sudo vi default-ssl
then change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All
Actually this is in the top of my file and it works fine .ie. my index.php is properly hidden and urls work fine :)
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
And finally after saving and quitting, dont forget to restart your apache
sudo service apache2 restart
thanks
I'm using MAMP with alias named works.
Codeigniter is at localhost/works/project/web
controllers doesn't work without index.php before them (localhost/works/project/web/index.php/auth/register)
$config['base_url'] = 'localhost/works/project/web/'; //with http://
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
(I tried all of them for uri_protocol)
I created and edit .htaccess file at /User/me/works/project/web/
I tired all the .htaccess files about this issue.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Users/me/works/project/web
#Removes access to the system folder by users.
#Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
#previously this would not have been possible.
#‘system’ can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
#Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
#such as an image or css document, if this isn’t true it sends the
#request to index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#This last condition enables access to the images and css folders, and the robots.txt file
#Submitted by Michael Radlmaier (mradlmaier)
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|css)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
# If we don’t have mod_rewrite installed, all 404’s
# can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
# Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
creates error, which is:
[error] [client ::1] File does not exist: /Users/me/works/project/web/auth
it is same when I use RewriteBase /
mod_rewrite is active in phpInfo.
I couldn't find the solution.
Your RewriteBase is wrong. It should not be the relative file path for your server, it should be the relative URL path for your rewrite rules and such. More info here.
If you've ever used HTML's <base> tag, it's pretty much the same principle. If your main localhost URL is http://localhost, and your project is in the subfolder http://localhost/my-project, then you would use RewriteBase /my-project/.
If you didn't use RewriteBase, and your project is in a subfolder, you'd have to add the subfolder to every one of your URLs and rewrites, like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /my-project/index.php/$1 [L]
Food for thought:
Start your .htaccess files as simple as possible. The more you throw at it right away, the more that can go wrong, and the harder it is to debug. Especially if you're a noob to .htaccess files. Don't blindly copy and paste -- figure out what things actually do.
The system folder access part is redundant now -- the system folder has its own .htaccess to restrict requests, just like the application folder.
1.Make below changes in application/config.php file
$config['base_url'] = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/Your Ci folder_name';
$config['index_page'] = '';
$config['uri_protocol'] = 'AUTO';
2.use this in .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
and enable rewrite mode using below command
a2enmod rewrite
and Edit the file /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default
change the AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.
and finally Restart your server
You certainly don't have mod_rewrite on or you did not install it with MAMP
Open your httpd config file and change
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride None
To
AllowOverride All
uncomment this line:
#LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
Also make some changes to users here: /etc/apache2/users/username.conf
LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
DocumentRoot "/Users/username/where/ever/you/like"
<Directory "/Users/username/where/ever/you/like">
Options Indexes MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Get more info here http://adam.merrifield.ca/2010/08/09/apache-mod_rewrite-php-and-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard/
Restart MAMP
To find out if mod_rewrite is on, follow this answer in Stackoverflow:
How to check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php?
Just to be sure your .htaccess is not the issue, could you try this one. It's been tested:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /Users/me/works/project/web/
# If the start of the URL doesn't match one of these...
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|robots\.txt|assets|cache|themes|uploads|css|images|js)
# Route through index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Access to certain folders are granted above and the rewritebase has a trailing slash.
Make sure you have any other nested .htaccess overriding this very one.
I fixed the problem by instead of using .htacces, I write them to httpd.conf.
I checked the AllowOverride is All but I'm not sure why .htaccess isn't working. Because of I lost too much time with this issue, I'm going to use this way.
Thanks for the answers.
Use AllowOverride All on your vhost:
<Directory "/path/to/your/site">
....
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
Open your httpd config file
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so then AllowOverride All
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs"> //example for xampp
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
I have installed codeigniter in a url like the format: http://11.12.34.45/~project/
I tried different suggestions and finally this following url provided the solution:
https://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/urls/remove_index.php.html
You need to change two files of Apache,
httpd.conf
httpd-vhosts.conf
change this in httpd.conf
<Files ".ht*">
Require all denied
</Files>
to,
<Files ".ht*">
Require all granted
</Files>
and add below code in httpd-vhosts.conf,
<VirtualHost *:8000>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www
<Directory "c:/wamp64/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
My problem is that my .htaccess file on my local server is not being read. The settings in the VirtualHost file seem to always take precedence.
I have tried the following:
Enabled mod_rewrite
Changed the AllowOverride to All but this causes a HTTP Error 500 Internal server error. I have tried it with various options but it always causes a 500 error.
I am using a VirtualHost file on Ubuntu which looks like the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /web/website
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /web/website>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
In my .htaccess file under /web/website I have the following rules (which are not being read):
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^facebookexternalhit
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ogtags.php?$1 [L,QSA]
ErrorDocument 404 /404
ErrorDocument 401 /401
One thing I tried which did work was appending these rules directly into the VirtualHost file, but I would like my .htaccess file to work! Is that such a big ask? :(
Edit: So I looked in my apache error.log and it says Invalid command 'Action', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration referring to my .htaccess file. There doesn't seem to be a module called Action which I can enable. Any ideas?
Edit 2: I noticed that my httpd.conf file is blank. Should this matter since I am using VirtualHost files?
After looking at my apache error.log I realised I just had to enable the Apache actions module:
sudo a2enmod actions
And no more 500 Internal Server Errors!
Hope this helps somebody down the line :)
You miss the RewriteBase / directive
Add it after the RewriteEngine directive :
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
I uploaded the .htaccess to the server and received an Error 500 (Internal Server Error).
And in the error log I had the following error:
.../.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here
But mod_rewrite.so is enabled.
So, do I need to change
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
to
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file?
Or could it be something else? The .htaccess file should be okay, because it works perfectly fine on my localhost. I just don't want to screw anything up.
Here's part of my .htaccess file:
Options All -Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
minimum configuration for your .htaccess to work:
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
allowing all configuration will work as well:
AllowOverride All
Let's say your DOCUMENT_ROOT is /home/foo/web then have this config in your httpd.conf file:
<Directory "/home/foo/web">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
This should take care of RewriteEngine is not allowed error you're getting.
Just an idea, this happened to me, and I've lost a lot of time trying to solve it.
If you have a directory like d:/web/my-sites/some-site/
And you place the .htaccess on d:/web/my-sites/some-site/.htaccess (where it supposed to be).
If you have ANY .htaccess files before this directory, Apache reads that files, and blocks the execution of the entire path, producing an internal server error.
I.E.: You have d:/web/my-sites/.htaccess
In httpd version 2.4 (2.4.3 and 2.4.4), take a look at /etc/httpd/conf.d/wordpress.conf
There is one entry for:
....
Change:
"AllowOverride Options"
to
"AllowOverride All"
in wordpress.conf also in addition to changing httpd.conf. Restart the http server before the changes will take effect.
Also, just make sure you are editing the correct config file. I had created a file under /etc/apache2/users/USERNAME.conf but was editing /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.
Removing the USERNAME.conf file worked.
Try to change username.conf file on Mac under /etc/apache2/users/username.conf to
<Directory "/Users/akyoo/Sites/">
AllowOverride All
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
</Directory>
My .htaccess file looks like this
#Allow from all
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]
This works fine for me.
Solution for Ubuntu users
I was getting this type of error from the Google Cloud instance after checking the logs from the /var/log/apache2/error.log
.htaccess: RewriteEngine not allowed here
To get rid of the above error & 500 Internal Server Error, follow these simple steps
sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Then add these snippets of lines
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
After you’ve made that change, make sure to restart the server:
sudo service apache2 restart
This worked for me in getting rid of 500 Internal Server Error hosted on Google Cloud instance
you could use something like this in your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|html|test)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
this code simply means, that anything not pointing to index.php or html or test should be directed to index.php!
Hope this is helpful!
I'm using .htaccess and mod_rewrite to point to files that reside behind the DocumentRoot. My folder structure looks like this:
home/
webroot/
other_files/
I have a .htaccess file in webroot with the following content:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /home/other_files/$1
If I try to access http://example.com/file.html I receive the following error:
The requested URL /home/other_files/file.html was not found on this server.
Is it even possible to load files that are behind the DocumentRoot? If so, can someone point me in the right direction?
I believe you need to add a section with
<Directory "/home/other_files">
(options)
</Directory>
to your server configuration before apache will be able to serve anything from it. For an example, my DocumentRoot is /var/www but there is this section in the default available site:
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
You could then rewrite a URL to go to /doc/ and the server would know where to get the files from.
Just so you know why that rule doesn't work:
The reason that it isn't able to rewrite to /home/other_files/file.html is that mod_rewrite is parsing the path as /home/webroot/home/other_files/file.html since from mod_rewrite's point of view the preceding slash is equivalent to your document root of /home/webroot.
Ryan Ahearn's suggestion is a decent one, and is likely the route you want to go.
The credit goes to Ryan Aheam, but I'm going to spell it out. I'm a beginner and even with Ryan's answer I had to experiment with a few things to get the syntax right.
I wanted my DocumentRoot to be my cakephp directory. But then I had a Mantis Bug tracker that was just regular PHP and so not in the cakephp directory. The the files below I have the following working.
http://www.example.com : served by /var/www/cakephp
http://www.example.com/mantisbt : served by /var/www/html/mantisbt
File /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Alias /mantisbt/ "/var/www/html/mantisbt/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin me#my_email.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/cakephp
ServerName my_website.com
<Directory /var/www/cakephp/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
File /var/www/cakephp/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^mantisbt/?$ /mantisbt/ [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>