I am on the shared host Bounceweb and I am trying to add some rewrite rules to make my links look prettier.
One of these rules is to make the url: http://mysite.com/upload point to: http://mysite.com/upload.php. I have this in my .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^upload$ upload.php
but all it's giving me is a 500 Internal Server Error. I looked at my logs and this comes up a lot:
[alert] [client 81.179.29.185] /home/minecraf/public_html/.htaccess: Invalid command '\xef\xbb\xbfRewriteEngine', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Does this mean my host doesn't support .htaccess? Pretty lame if they don't. I've already tried changing the permissions of .htaccess to 777 and it doesn't help.
Thanks!
\xef\xbb\xbf are three invisible junk characters (at least from Apache's perspective) called the Unicode BOM, or byte order mark. Apache thinks that those characters are part of the command that follows right after. This is what you see in the log, though the characters are escaped so they're visible to the naked eye. \xef\xbb\xbfRewriteEngine
In your editor, especially if your editor is Notepad, make sure you're saving your file without a BOM. This should be selectable in the save as dialog or elsewhere.
It might be the mod_rewrite module is not loaded.
Windows xampp : Open xampp/apache/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment mod_rewrite module.
Windows wamp : Open wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.x.x/conf/httpd.conf and uncomment mod_rewrite module.
Ubuntu : a2enmod rewrite && service apache2 restart
or cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load
Then reload apache
To remove the BOM in unix use vi and below command
: set nobomb
: wq
Try this:
a2enmod rewrite
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
rewriterule ^upload$ upload.php
</IfModule>
try this.
I had this problem and solved it with:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
sudo service apache2 restart
Just save your .htaccess file with UTF-8 encoding (without BOM) and upload.
Recommended to use Notepad++. (in my case that helped).
atb
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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 am trying to get pretty urls using htaccess for SLIR image resizing plugin.
I want to rewrite something like below:
Before Rewrite:
localhost/img/600x400/slider/image.jpg
After Rewrite
localhost/application/public/slir/index.php?r=slir&w=600&h=400&i=img/slider/image.jpg
But the following code is returning a 500 Internal server error...
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*)/([0-9]{1,4})x([0-9]{1,4})/(.*)\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png) application/public/slir/index.php?r=slir&w=$2&h=$3&i=$1/$4.$5 [NC,NE,QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Please help me.....
UPDATE
I thought it was a File Permissions issue...
so I checked all the related directories and files, surprisingly there were all 755/644.
Then I directly checked the /application/public/slir/index.php. It was not accessible.
I created another file named hello.php in the same slir directory and hello.php was accessible.
Then I moved the SLIR directory to the another folder named public. Here, both the index.php and hello.php were accessible.
After that, I moved SLIR directory to back to the original scripts folder. In scripts folder, hello.php is accessible but index.php is not accessible.
Now, Both files have same permissions and are in same folder.. I dont know what is happening here... :/ :/
Someone please help me......
In case anyone else is looking at this - the problem I found was these two lines in the htaccess file:
php_value auto_prepend_file none
&
php_value auto_append_file none
some servers don't allow them.
moving them to my php.ini file solved it for me:
auto-prepend-file = none
auto-append-file = none
That is probably because you are editing the .htaccess file with a Windows based editor like notepad. Notepad adds some characters to the file which you can't see, but they mess with the .htaccess. I recommend using an editor like Notepad++ and setting the mode to Unix, so it won't mess with the server..
Speaking technically that is because Linux and Windows have different type of EOL ( End Of Line ) so that notepad adds some characters to the end of every line to go to the next line, but Unix won't recognize them, because it has it's own type of EOL..
Slashes are normally forbidden in query strings, but you can enable them by setting
AllowEncodedSlashes directive.
You may also want your rewrite rule to use percent encoding for slashes (that is %2F) so after rewrite:
localhost/application/public/slir/index.php?r=slir&w=600&h=400&i=img%2Fslider%2Fimage.jpg
See also How do you configure apache php to accept slashes in query strings
Duplicate, phrased very differently:
Has anyone used Smart Image Resizer on subdomain sites?
The problem is the subdomain...
Apache Installed OK, LoadModule mod_rewrite is already uncommented in etc/apache2/httpd.conf, we've uncommented AllowOverrides and followed standard procedure for what is quite a simple install but .htaccess files are still taking no effect - are there any specific requirements for the setup above that would mean the mod_rewrite isn't working?
phpinfo() shows that mod_rewrite is loaded but we simply can't make any .htaccess file work, even with the simplest tests
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^link([^/]*).html$ testrule.php?link=$1 [L]
Any ideas, anyone?
Another test to see if it's running is
lsof | grep mod_rewrite
I found after adding the 'rewrite' to the conf file and running the update
SuSEconfig
it still wasn't loading so I added it manually to this file as well
/etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf
After restarting apache all is working!
AllowOverrides could also be configured inside Directory tag, may be AllowOverrides is uncommented and On globally but is explicitly off in Directory tag.
Just a comment based on the provided information, it would be great if you could paste the related part of your httpd.conf.
Filepath: /Users/user_name/Sites/example.com
Browseable at: http://localhost/~user_name/example.com/
In a child directory (chrome) I got a .htaccess like this:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^rgba\((\d{1,3}%?,\s?\d{1,3}%?,\s?\d{1,3}%?,\s?[0-1]?\.?\d+)\)$ rgba.php?rgba=$1 [PT]
This matches a request like:
http://localhost/~user_name/example.com/chrome/rgba(255,255,255,0.5)
and should rewrite the request to:
http://localhost/~user_name/example.com/chrome/rgba.php?rgba=(255,255,255,0.5)
I put the rgba.php in the chrome directory. Still I get this error msg:
The requested URL /Users/user_name/Sites/example.com/chrome/rgba.php was not found on this server.
I read the part in the manual about Home directory expansion and the [PT] flag but it makes no difference.
If i put up a vhost pointing to the example.com directory it works. I would like it to work both ways =P
So how do I do it?
I run Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) on a Mac OS X
EDIT
AllowOverride is set to All for the users Sites directory. If it wasn´t the rewrite shouldn´t have worked at all.
I spent half a day wracking my brains on this and the only solution I could find was to create a new VirtualHost with the DocumentRoot set to the user's home directory.
Holy god that was frustrating. But I have it working.
I tried a bunch of stuff. I thought that the PT flag on the RewriteRule would fix it, but nope.
I still don't know how to stop the home directory expansion, but I figured out a workaround. Just before the RewriteRule, use RewriteBase /~user_name/example.com/chrome/. This overrides the rewrite's prefix (log entry from my config):
<SNIP> (2) [perdir /Users/colin/Sites/ajaxtest/] trying to replace prefix /Users/colin/Sites/ajaxtest/ with /~colin/ajaxtest/
UPDATE
This solution works somewhat, but it appears to make the rewrite engine trigger twice... once for the internal redirect, and again afterwards. I ended up just using a VirtualHost like the other submitter.
Allow overrides in you configuration file for your home directories.
rewrite script in .htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index/page/(.*)$ index.php?page=$1
It works in local machine. but in server it does not work. can any body help me?
Have you verified that the rewrite module is loaded on your server? If the server is running apache you should be able to verify this with
apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_MODULES
and looking for the rewrite_module in the response. (NB: You may need apachectl depending on the machine you are using.)
If it is not loaded you might need to change your server configuration. This is doable (again, depending on the version of apache in use) with a step like
a2enmod rewrite
or ensuring your httpd.conf file contains
LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache2/mod_rewrite.so
or by ensuring there's a symbolic link between the rewrite.load file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled and /etc/apache2/mods-available.
Don't forget to restart apache afterwards.