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=$1 [L]
Any ideas, anyone?
Another test to see if it's running is
lsof | grep mod_rewrite
I found after adding the 'rewrite' to the conf file and running the update
SuSEconfig
it still wasn't loading so I added it manually to this file as well
/etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf
After restarting apache all is working!
AllowOverrides could also be configured inside Directory tag, may be AllowOverrides is uncommented and On globally but is explicitly off in Directory tag.
Just a comment based on the provided information, it would be great if you could paste the related part of your httpd.conf.
Related
This simple RewriteRule that I am using for practicing with .htaccess files works almost always:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^.*$ test.html
When I have the file flowers.html and I use http://localhost/flowers I get redirected to test.html, however when I rename flowers.html to flowers.php I get a 404 page with the message The requested URL /flowers was not found on this server. Does anyone know what causes this?
EDIT:
When I create an empty file called flowers it does redirect properly to test.html. What is going on here?
This does sound like a conflict with MultiViews, so try adding the following at the top of your .htaccess file to disable MultiViews:
Options -MultiViews
MultiViews is not enabled by default, so maybe this has been enabled in your server config?
When MultiViews (part of mod_negotiation) is enabled, a request for /flowers (no extension) will result in Apache searching for an appropriate file to return (based on mime-type) by trying various file extensions of files found in that directory. This is achieved with an internal subrequest before mod_rewrite runs.
However, it's not clear why this would be a problem in your case if you have no other directives? Since your directive simply rewrites everything to test.html (which should include any subrequests). (I was unable to reproduce this behaviour on my Apache 2.4 test server - hence my initial doubt.)
I'm trying to get cakephp working locally on my mac - yosemite. I have apache and php working locally in my /~user/Sites directory... I can hit a php ini file ok and have an install of wordpress in another directory.
I've hooked it all up apart from getting the urls rewriting... I followed the steps on the cake site:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/url-rewriting.html
Now all I get is 404 not found!.
The three .htaccess files have the default content with an additional RewriteBase pointing to the folder its installed in, in my Sites folder.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? I've read the other posts on this and none of them helped!
Thanks
First, confirm mod_rewrite is enabled by (on command line):
# a2enmod rewrite
If it just got enabled using the command above, restart apache:
# /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
These types of errors should hit your error.log .. while trying to load the site, hold the error log open:
# tail -f /var/log/apache/error.log
and try to access your page again.
If this doesn't help you solve the problem, paste in your rewrite rules so we can take a peak.
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 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
My htaccess file is the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^blog/post/([0-9]+) /blog.php?post=$1
RewriteRule ^blog/page/([0-9]+) /blog.php?page=$1
RewriteRule ^work/([0-9]+) /work.php?ID=$1
The work.php rule is working, but the two blog rules aren't. They used to all work, but I recently moved my server. Any ideas why this would be?
Thanks in advance!
Edit:
Woah, I noticed that I had a work folder, but no blog folder, so I made one, and now this works. Any ideas why?
I just set up a (virtual) server on my local Apache 2.2 installation, running PHP 5.2 as a module. The server's document root contained only php files to (simplistically) process the examples you gave above (just echoing the parameters from $_GET). My .htaccess file at the document root contained only what you specified above, and nothing else. The document root did not contain the subdirectories /work or /blog (or /blog/post or /blog/page).
My setup did not have any problems at all rewriting the SEO-friendly URLs to the proper PHP files, which in turn echoed the parameter values I expected from $_GET.
There is something other than mod_rewrite requiring the existence of the subdirectories, and Apache is hitting (and thus requiring) it before it processes the rewrite rules. Not sure what it is, but it does not appear to be mod_rewrite, given the rules you have above.