Apache htaccess file, where did I go wrong? - apache

Question

Really can't find my mistake, I can access the sitemap/ link, but all the others give a 404 Not Found Error.
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php?page=home index.php?page=error
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
# some other stuff #
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap/?$ sitemap.xml.php [L]
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^products/?$ index.php?page=products [L]
RewriteRule ^products/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=products&id=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I'd really appreciate some help, I definitely suck at .htaccess files...

Answer 1

Rewriting rules aside, you have other problems here:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.php?page=home index.php?page=error
This means, that, for a folder a file showing index will be selected in this order (first one existing wins):
index.php
index.php?page=home (this is the filename)
index.php?page=error (this is the filename)
I doubt this was your intention.
Next:
AllowOverride All
If you're already in .htaccess and AllowOverride was restrictive, this will not help, and if it wasn't, then there is no point of writing this again.
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
This basically says "allow everyone everywhere" which is the default anyway. Unless it was restricted in some way on upper level or in apache configuration, this is redundant.
As for rewrite:
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^products/?$ index.php?page=products [L]
The second rule is redundant anyway, and will never be reached (as the first one matches it as well).
As for the error you're seeing:
[Wed Jul 04 02:56:30 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/home"
This may mean problems with DocumentRoot definitions. Please, post your VirtualHosts configuration.