This is the opposite problem from most about which I have read. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 on an Amazon instance with Apache 2.2.8 and I can't figure out why setting AllowOverride to None for root doesn't stop my .htaccess file from being included.
I have a sub-directory with hello.py in it and an .htaccess file. When I browse to the file, it works fine with modpython serving the file. If I put some garbage in .htaccess I get a server error, so I know the .htaccess file is being used. Also if I delete the .htaccess file, hello.py is no longer server by modpython - instead the browser tries to open it.
In one of my sites-available (linked in sites-enabled), I have "AllowOverride None" for the root directory. I thought that this would prevent .htaccess from being included from root and all its sub-directories which should cause hello.py to not be served by mod_python. However, it continues to be served fine and I can test that .htaccess is still being included because when I modify it, I see the results in my browser.
Maybe there is something I am not understanding about my file in sites-enabled. This is the file I am using:
NameVirtualHost *:8080
<VirtualHost *:8080>
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Thanks for any help.
The reason the file is not served via mod_python when you delete .htaccess is because the setup for mod_python is located in it. If you move that stuff to your sites-available file, you can delete .htaccess, turn a blind eye to the problem, and call it a day.
If that doesn't satisfy you, then as to why .htacess is being read at all, I can't say. You are correct that AllowOverride None should prevent the file from ever being read. Have you considered the possibility that you screwed something up when adding the virtual site? Try throwing some garbage into the config and see if it complains, just to be sure it's being read at all.
AllowOverride is only allowed in <Directory>-sections, so you've done everything right.
One problem you could have is that other (sub-)<Directory>-sections set AllowOverride to something different than None. That will override the setting for these subdirectories.
I use
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
and in /var/www (my docroot) I can use .htaccesses.
The reason why mod_python does not work anymore if you delete your .htaccess is that mod_python setup is usually in .htaccess files.
If you need more information, please send us your configuration.
PS: In fact the docuementation linked above says that you should never set AllowOverride to something not None in <Directory />.
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I've just installed ubuntu-server_6.04.2_LTS, after the fresh installation I've enabled mod_rewrite, it's showing in phpinfo()
my .htaccess file is OK
but, still requests are not going through index.php
You should check if for that specific directory (root folder of your project), apache is configured to allow overriding through .htaccess.
If you want to allow such override, the directives found in apache.conf or the specific settings for your virtual host should look like this:
<Directory /var/www/>
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
I have just created a new (test) symfony project and set my apache webroot to /home/user/project/ (not sure if it should be /home/user/project/web/?)
However, from what I understand based on the lightbulb section here: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/page_creation.html#the-web-directory - there isn't any internal rerouting occurring. Therefore, this does not work:
http://localhost/random/10
but these do work:
http://localhost/app_dev.php/random/10
http://localhost/app.php/random/10
To double check, if I start the internal PHP server (php app/console server:start) then everything gets rerouted correctly - this does work:
http://localhost:8000/random/10
Am I right in thinking that I need to make changes to .htaccess? If so, is there a 'standard' section of code for using apache with symfony?
EDIT:
I have updated my apache2.conf (which for others would be httpd.conf if not on ubuntu as I understand it) as below:
<Directory /home/user/Project/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
If I remember correctly, .htaccess alredy defines DirectoryIndex as app.php. However, your Apache config file httpd.conf might be blocking the override.
Make sure that you have that line in your .htaccess and also check the value of AllowOverride (docs) within your httpd.conf. Try setting AllowOverride to All and see if that works.
OK, I've been having some issues with aws or something, such that I cannot seem to get mod_rewrite to work.
Just for testing purposes I've done the following:
1 used aws console to deploy fresh ami 64 bit instance from wizard
2 yum installed apache
3 edited /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
so that
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
looks like
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
4 made sure that
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
is in the file and uncommented.
5 restarted apache:
sudo /sbin/service httpd restart
6 created two new files:
/var/www/html/test1.html
contains:
this is test1!
/var/www/html/test2.html
contains:
this is test2!
7 created file:
/var/www/html/.htaccess
contains (IN TOTAL):
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^test1\.html$ test2.html [L]
8 went to:
http://[my aws server]/test1.html
Am getting "this is test1!"
I am doing something wrong here, but for the life of me I have no idea what. Any help is greatly appreciated...
EDIT: I added nonsense chars/numbers to the beginning of my .htaccess file, and restarted apache (not 100% sure that is needed, but what the hey...), and nothing happened. In other words, I expected that going to the url [aws server]/test1.html would result in some kind of error, but it did not. I suspect apache is not even reading the .htaccess file.
EDIT: I added the following to my httpd.conf file:
RewriteLog "/tmp/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9
The file is created when I restart apache, but nothing ever goes in there when I go to either page I've set up. I'm failing to do something very, very basic here, but I'm not sure what...
Not sure if this is the cause of your problems, but you shouldn't mess with the
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
line, and it should be something like:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Deny from all
</Directory>
You should add the directory of your document root as a different container:
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Allow from all
</Directory>
Took me a while to find this but in some installs Apache will use multiple config files.
Look in "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default" and check that AllowOveride is set to All
Try it. This work for me.
The first, you need to make sure the .htaccess file put in correct directory.
For this, you go to sites-enabled folder and check which the .conf files are enabled.
cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
ls
Ex: 000-default.conf
Then, goto sites-available folder to edit that .conf file.
cd ../sites-available
sudo gedit 000-default.conf
Find to DocumentRoot and check directory again.
If you put .htaccess file in /var/www/html/.htaccess so this line look like this:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/
The second, You need modify <Directory> block look like this.
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
# This directive allows us to have apache2's default start page
# in /apache2-default/, but still have / go to the right place
#RedirectMatch ^/$ /apache2-default/
</Directory>
Finally, you save file and restart apache
service apache2 restart
Hope this help!
Iam trying to redirect my home page or any other page on the site to a particular php page .
This is my htaccess
Redirect 301 http://test.com/info http://test.com/get_forms_data.php
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine ON
RewriteRule ^test.php$ http://test.com/get_forms_data.php [R=301,L]
I have checked my apache server .rewrite is enabled .
It still doesnt work .
If no matter what you put into your .htaccess file, you don't even get an error, that means that you probably need to have
AllowOverride All
set in your site configuration.
If you're on ubuntu, the place to look for the configuration is /etc/apache2/sites-available/. There you should find a file called default if this is a stock install of the default LAMP stack (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP).
The key part there is this:
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
Now change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All. After that don't forget to restart your apache like so:
$ service apache2 restart
As an addition to Morgan's answer, putting AllowOverride All in your virtual host is sometimes not enough. I had this in my virtual host:
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
<Directory />
...
AllowOverride All
...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
You would expect this to work, wouldn't you, <Directory /> means it should be applied to everywhere on the file system. But .htaccess was still being ignored. Restarting the server did not help. I put junk in the .htaccess file to confirm it was not being read.
My mistake was assuming a virtual host overrides the global configuration. Kind of it does: my above configuration overrides any global settings for the / directory. But the global configuration overrides it back for /var/www/ and below. My fix is:
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
<Directory /var/www>
...
AllowOverride All
...
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
(this assumes none of the other configuration needed to apply outside /var/www; if it does, make a separate <Directory /> block for just that special configuration.)
I was struggling with the same problem, and Darren Cook's answer gave me the definitive clue to find the solution.
My app was in some folder out of th public www path, lt's say in /opt/my_app.
I couldn't create a VirtualHost, so I created a symlink in Apache's public www ponting to my folder:
/var/www/html/my_app -> /opt/my_app
The thing is, in my App's Apache config file, I was specifying:
<Directory /opt/my_app>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
And my .htaccess file wasn't being read. Then I saw that in Apache's configuration there was this:
<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
Then I realised that Apache config files do not care about symlinks, and therefore the general rule was being applied to my App's foler. I changed Directory to:
<Directory /var/www/html/my_app>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
And everything worked.
If Redirection doesn't work inspite of updating apache2.conf
According to the accepted answer, I updated AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in the apache2.conf file, however redirection via .htaccess file was still not working for me!
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All # did not work inspite of setting to "All"
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
What worked for me...
I had to also enable module redirection
// enable module redirection
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Of course, do not to forget to restart your apache server for the changes to take effect
Reference
Assuming /var/www/html is the working directory:
Change from AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All
<Directory /var/www/html>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
I'm currently moving a dev magento build to my live test subdomain on ubuntu and using Easy Hosting Control Panel (EHCP).
If I rename my .htaccess file to .htaccess and refresh my subdomain url, I get an internal server error 500. If I rename the .htaccess file to .htaccess.bak, and refresh, the subdomain displays my magento store fine. BUT, if I try to navigate, since the index.php isn't removed in the .htaccess file, all my links are dead unless I insert index.php between my root url and the actual page/directory I'm navigating to.
I tried over riding the /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default and /etc/apache2/sites-available/default files to AllowOverride All:
<VirtualHost *>
DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/vhosts/>
Options -Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
<FilesMatch "access_log|error_log">
Deny from All
</FilesMatch>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log
LogLevel debug
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combineddefault
but changing that in either file, or both, and then reenabling the .htaccess file still gives me the 500 error.
anything I'm doing wrong here? Somewhere else I should be placing the mod rewrite information?
thanks!
I know this is kind of dead but for those with this issue check your /etc/apache2/mods-enabled to see if rewrite.load is there if not try to copy it from the /etc/apache2/mods-available folder that fixed the issue for me. You will also have to have the .htaccess override enabled for that
is it rules available?
maybe apache is disabled rewrite mod,you can try to enable.
type 'a2enmod rewrite' to turn on.