I have a site with the url http://localhost/my-site/. A file called test.php exists on root, a folder named test does not exist.
When I open a link like http://localhost/my-site/test/, the file test.php is opened. Should it not give a 404 error instead? I have no .htaccess file doing any funny business. The rewriting seems to be done before any .htaccess file is being run, as a rewrite rule of test/ does not match anything. A rewrite rule of test.php does however match.
I am using WampServer 2.2 with Apache 2.4.2.
This sounds like a mod_negotiation/Multiviews issue.
In the appropriate place (say, in your vhost config, or in the htaccess file in my-site's directory, include in the Options a - multiviews:
Options -Multiviews
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I have a clean installation of Apache+PHP (latest) on CentOS 8 with no customization on php.ini nor .htaccess files. For some reason when I open URLs like:
https://www.example.com/index.php/xxxx/flkjfd.jpg
https://www.example.com/index.php/SLkfjLj/
https://www.example.com/index.php/9kf944.994
They always show the content of the index.php file located at the root. If I remove that file, than the URLs above show 404 error. How can this happen? I have no directory "index.php"! I have only a file "index.php" with some random string... How can I prevent this?
Isnt this weird? Or is this expected?
I have a domain which contains within it multiple sites with multiple .htaccess files (it's for clients to check their own projects out before they go live to their own servers, so each .htaccess file controls its own site).
If I have a .htaccess file in the root, it will control the domain. If mydomain.com/doesntexist is entered and it doesn't exist, the root's 404 page will come up. If mydomain.com/doesexist/doesntexist is entered, the .htaccess file in the "doesexist" directory would take priority, as opposed to the root's .htaccess file ... correct?
You are correct.
I suggest you to read Apache HTTP Server Tutorial: .htaccess files
The configuration directives found in a .htaccess file are applied to
the directory in which the .htaccess file is found, and to all
subdirectories thereof. However, it is important to also remember that
there may have been .htaccess files in directories higher up.
Directives are applied in the order that they are found. Therefore, a
.htaccess file in a particular directory may override directives found
in .htaccess files found higher up in the directory tree. And those,
in turn, may have overridden directives found yet higher up, or in the
main server configuration file itself.
ROOT htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
subfolder htaccess
ErrorDocument 404 /subfolder/index.php
http://domain.com/does_not_exist --> (404 error) /index.php
http://domain.com/subfolder/does_not_exist --> (404 error) /subfolder/index.php
This is so frustrating. My root directory is at home/websitename/websitename/ and my httpd.conf has nothing in it!
My .htaccess is in the same directory as the index.php is supposed to be and all I'm typing into .htaccess (and FTP identifies this as an HTACCESS file) is:
DirectoryIndex Home.php
The error message I get when trying to visit the site is a 403 forbidden to list the directories of "/"
the AllowOverride directive is set to All
Ok actually I made a dumb mistake.
Basically all the things one needs to check in order for the .htaccess to work are these:
Create a .htaccess file in the main directory. Make sure the .htaccess file is made in a file editor for ACSII. (notepad++, dev editor, NO Microsoft Word)
Make sure AllowOverride is set to All in the Apache configuration for your website. It should be under <directory>
Make sure to restart apache after making any changes to the Apache file!! Note that even though .htaccess does not require you to restart Apache, changing anything in the website configuration file requires you to restart Apache in order for it to function.
Lastly, your website should output a 500 Internal Apache Error if it is able to actually read the .htaccess file, NOT a 403: Access Forbidden or directory listing.
Suppose I have a site example.com which points to the root directory of my hosting account and it has a .htaccess file in that directory. Say I have an other domain stuff.example.com which points to the same hosting account, but to a subdirectory of it, not to the root directory, and that subdirectory also has a .htaccess file in it.
If I visit stuff.example.com then will its .htaccess file be affected by the .htaccess settings of the root directory? Or htaccess search starts from the directory where the domain points to, so in this case the htaccess file in the parent directory is not taken into account?
Surprisingly the Apache docs don't ever explicitly answer this, as far as I can tell. But the htaccess tutorial gives the example that if a file is requested from /www/htdocs/example, then Apache looks for the following .htaccess files:
/.htaccess
/www/.htaccess
/www/htdocs/.htaccess
/www/htdocs/example/.htaccess
which presumably leads outside of the DocumentRoot. So it seems that the answer to your question is yes, Apache will read all .htaccess files all the way up to /.
will its .htaccess file be affected by the .htaccess settings of the root directory?
Yes. Where your web root is doesn't matter.
I want to rewrite the url http://mydomain/myapp/fakefolder to http://mydomain/myapp/index.php
I tried the following rule but thats not working
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^fakefolder$ index.php
The .htaccess file is located inside myapp.
Kindly help
Thanks
vineet
To begin with, your folder is not called vineetstore: it's called fakefolder.
The corrected rule works for me so I'd dare say your Apache installation is not configured to read .htaccess files in such location. You can easily test that: make a syntax error on purpose and see whether your site crashes.
Find your virtual host or site definition and make sure you have this directive:
AllowOverride All