I've been struggling a lot with an access rule that needed to rewrite one piece of URL adding a path.
RewriteRule ^(configuration/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
This Rule caused just a blank page on my Joomla site with no error log or messages.
The curious thing is that all other rules I had worked perfectly:
RewriteRule ^(log/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
RewriteRule ^(monitor/.+)$ application-server/$1 [L,NC,R=301,NE]
in the end, I've found in a forum a suggestion to use the following option:
Options -Multiviews
That actually solved the issue, however I wonder if there can be any side effects on other Rules when using this option.
This is about Apache content negotiation.
A MultiViews search is where the server does an implicit filename pattern match, and choose from amongst the results.
For example, if you have a file called configuration.php (or other extension) in root folder and you set up a rule in your htaccess for a virtual folder called configuration/ then you'll have a problem with your rule because the server will choose configuration.php automatically (if MultiViews is enabled, which is the case most of the time).
If you want to disable that behaviour, you simply have to add this in your htaccess
Options -MultiViews
This way, your rule will be now evaluated because content negotiation is disabled.
Edit
On some shared hostings, the negotiation module might not be enabled. That would give you then a 500 error. To avoid this error, you can, by default, encapsulate the directive in an IfModule block.
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
My urls currently look like this: http://www.morrisononline.com/index.php?p=contact
I would like to rewrite them to http://www.morrisononline.com/contact
The content for (in this case) contact comes from the directory /pages/ (www.morrisononline.com/pages/contact.php)
I have tried the following in the .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L]
I have also tried other combinations too (I'm not very good at this and trying lots of suggestions from other forum posts etc) but nothing has any effect. No error messages and no rewrites either. Did I do it wrong or could there be another command before that, that overrides this?
Do I have to refresh some cache or restart the server for this to work?
Make sure you have AllowOverride All or at least AllowOverride FileInfo in your site's config for the site's document root. And make sure the htaccess file is in the document root, is readable by everyone. If it's still not working, make sure that you've got AccessFileName set to .htaccess.
I have my .htaccess file working in localhost. But its not working if i upload it in server. It throws me 404 error.
I am using Parallel Plesk 11.0.9 and i can't find conf file for the same on that. If anyone has any idea how to fix it or any workaround for url rewriting would be great help.
Anyway here's the code in htaccess:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^store/living/Hutches-Armoires-Side-tables-Coffee-tables-Entertainment-centers? store.php?store=Living
RewriteRule ^store/dining/sideboards-buffets-chairs-benches-Dining-table$ store.php?store=Dining
RewriteRule ^store/working/Bookshelves-Study-tables$ store.php?store=Working
RewriteRule ^store/accessories/Boxes-Photo-Frames-Mirror-Frames-Block-Stamps-and-Book-stands$ store.php?store=Accessories
RewriteRule ^store/hallway/Console-tables-Armoires$ store.php?store=Hallway
RewriteRule ^store/sleeping/Bed-Frames-Night-Stands-Dressers-Mirror-framesBed-Linens-Canopies-Curtains$ store.php?store=Sleeping
You may need to wrap your rewrite rules with:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
...
</IfModule>
...probably a good idea anyway.
Or you could try putting your rules into a vhost.conf file in the conf directory immediately below the location of your httpdocs directory. For example on a Centos machine the web root might be
/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs
and you should have a:
/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/conf
directory, this will contain a set of pregenerated Apache config files that Plesk creates. If there isn't already create a vhost.conf and add your rules between a set of
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/ >
... your rules ...
</Directory>
Once you've created the vhost.conf file you will need to tell plesk about it with
/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpdmng --reconfigure-domain domain.com
If you still can't get it to work you can add a log for mod_rewrite, see this relevant SO answer for details
Is your Plesk running IIS and supporting PHP via FastCGI or ISAPI? If that is the case, check whether URL Rewrite is installed and follow this guide to translate htaccess (for apache) into web.config (for IIS)
i m using XAMPP but i m not able to use .htaccess file at local host. i m trying so many times.. Online working good. but local host showing [The requested URL was not found on this server]
My root folder is real
localhost/acre/real/property_available.php
localhost/acre/real/properties
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /acre/real/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^properties$ /property_available.php/$1 [NC,QSA]
</IfModule>
Please
Just had a similar issue
Resolved it by checking in httpd.conf
# 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 <--- make sure this is not set to "None"
It is worth bearing in mind I tried (from Mark's answer) the "put garbage in the .htaccess" which did give a server error - but even though it was being read, it wasn't being acted on due to no overrides allowed.
In conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, add the line AllowOverride All for all the websites that you are having problem with
<VirtualHost example.site:80>
# rest of the stuff
<Directory "c:\Projects\example.site">
Require all granted
AllowOverride All <-----This line is required
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Try
<IfModule mod_rewrite.so>
...
...
...
</IfModule>
instead of <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Without seeing your system it's hard to tell what's wrong but try the following (comment answer if these didn't work WITH log error messages)
[STOP your Apache server instance. Ensure it's not running!]
1) move apache server/install to a folder that has no long file names and spaces
2) check httpd.conf in install\conf folder and look for AccessFileName. If it's .htaccess change it to a file name windows accepts (e.g. conf.htaccess)
3) double-check that your htaccess file gets read: add some uninterpretable garbage to it and start server: you should get an Error 500. If you don't, file is not getting read, re-visit httpd.conf file (if that looks OK, check if this is the only file which defines htaccess and it's location and it does at one place -within the file- only; also check if both httpd.conf and htaccess files are accessible: not encrypted, file access rights are not limited, drive/path available -and no long folder path and file names-)STOP Apache again, then go on:
4) If you have IIS too on your system, stop it (uninstall it too if you can) from services.msc
5) Add the following to the top of your valid htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLog "/path/logs/rewrite.log" #make sure path is there!
RewriteLogLevel 9
6) Empty your [apache]\logs folder (if you use another folder, then that one :)
7) Check the following entries are set and correct:
Action application/x-httpd-php "c:/your-php5-path/php-cgi.exe"
LoadModule php5_module "c:/your-php5-path/php5apache2.dll"
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Avoid long path names and spaces in folder names for phpX install too!
8) START apache server
You can do all the steps above or go one-by-one, your call. But at the end of the day make sure you tried everything above!
If system still blows up and you can't fix it, copy&paste error message(s) from log folder for further assistance
I had a similar problem. But the problem was in the file name '.htaccess', because the Windows doesn't let the file's name begin with a ".", the solution was rename the file with a CMD command. "rename c:\xampp\htdocs\htaccess.txt .htaccess"
for xampp vm on MacOS capitan, high sierra, MacOS Mojave (10.12+), you can follow these
1. mount /opt/lampp
2. explore the folder
3. open terminal from the folder
4. cd to `htdocs`>yourapp (ex: techaz.co)
5. vim .htaccess
6. paste your .htaccess content (that is suggested on options-permalink.php)
For windows user, make sure to closely look at this section.
RewriteRule ^properties$ /property_available.php/$1 [NC,QSA]
As said in Apache documentation :
The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a
PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly.
So ^properties$ means Apache will only look for URL that has exact match with properties.
You might want to try this code.
RewriteRule properties /property_available.php/$1 [NC,QSA]
So Apache will see the URL that has properties and rewrite it to /property_available.php/
I've setup xampp for my localhost as well, I've not done anything with the files created by xampp during or after setup.
But in the '.htaccess' file, make sure you've set it to something like this. Works for me, and this should not make any difference for you.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^filename/?$ filename.html
Change .html to whatever format you're using.
Make sure your install is clean, and just make the .htaccess file.
Also remember to put one .htaccess file for each directory (don't really know if you can use ONE file for all folders, but to be safe, just do this and it will always work.
Edit the .htaccess file, so the first line reads 'Test.':
Test.
Set the default handler
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
...
I'm running WAMP on my Win7 box and trying to configure an htaccess folder to restrict my guests from browsing the directory structure.
Right now, if you head to http://grovertechnologysolutions.com/Technical, it will list the directory structure which I do not want. They should be only able to get to the .html site.
I've already modified the httpd.conf file to remove the commented out rewrite mod.
I've added the htaccess file to the documentroot of my website.
My htaccess file looks like this:
options -indexes
# or #
IndexIgnore *
I've restarted all services multiple times.
Should the htaccess be in the WWW folder or the document root? I run many websites virtually and only care about my main site, so I've been placing the htaccess inside that folder, but have tried www as well.
I'm assuming you've edited the proper .htaccess file in the website's DocumentRoot folder.
Options -Indexes
The above will only work if your particular WAMP's configuration and the website's VirtualHost file has the proper AllowOverride value set, such as...
AllowOverride All
Check the website's VirtualHost file, and/or httpd.conf's for something like...
<Directory "C:/WampDeveloper/Websites/www.example.com/webroot">
Options All
AllowOverride All
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
If it's not set to All nor lists Indexes, that .htaccess line is going to get ignored.
I've already modified the httpd.conf file to remove the commented out rewrite mod
mod_rewrite has nothing to do with this.
I've restarted all services multiple times.
.htaccess files are re-read on every request. You don't need to restart Apache.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride