I have pushed my .htaccess files to the production severs, but they don't work. Would a restart be the next step, or should I check something else.
A restart is not required for changes to .htaccess. Something else is wrong.
Make sure your .htaccess includes the statement
RewriteEngine on
which is required even if it's also present in httpd.conf. Also check that .htaccess is readable by the httpd process.
Check the error_log - it will tell you of any errors in .htaccess if it's being used.
Putting an intentional syntax error in .htaccess is a good check to make sure the file is being used -- you should get a 500 error on any page in the same directory.
Lastly, you can enable a rewrite log using commands like the following in your httpd.conf:
RewriteLog "logs/rewritelog"
RewriteLogLevel 7
The log file thus generated will give you the gory detail of which rewrite rules matched and how they were handled.
No:
Apache allows for decentralized management of configuration via special files placed inside the web tree. The special files are usually called .htaccess, but any name can be specified in the AccessFileName directive... Since .htaccess files are read on every request, changes made in these files take immediate effect...
From the apache documentation:
Most commonly, the problem is that AllowOverride is not set such that your configuration directives are being honored. Make sure that you don't have a AllowOverride None in effect for the file scope in question. A good test for this is to put garbage in your .htaccess file and reload. If a server error is not generated, then you almost certainly have AllowOverride None in effect.
Only if you have not added the mod_rewrite module to Apache.
You only need to restart Apache if you change any Apache ".conf" files.
I have the same issue and it seems PiedPiper post about AllowOverride were most helpful. Check your httpd.conf file for "AllowOverride" and make sure it is set to All.
In case of .htaccess restart is not required if it is not working probable reasons include.
AllowOverride May not be set which user can set inside httpd.conf or might have to contact server admin.
Check the file name of .htaccess it should be .htaccess not htaccess.txt see here for guide how to create one.
Try to use Options -Indexes or deny all kind of simple directive to see if it is working or not.
clear browser cache everytime if having rule for redirects or similar if previous redirect is cached it appears as if things are not working.
What's in your .htaccess? RewriteRules? Check that mod_rewrite is installed and enabled.
Other stuff? Try setting AllowOverride to 'all' on that directory.
Related
I want to prevent directory file listing in all of my folders, so when a user types http://example.com/thisDoesNotExists/, the directory file listing do not show up.
According to a tutorial all I have to do is set IndexIgnore *
I try to set it in the httpd.conf, so I do
<IfModule mod_autoindex>
IndexIgnore *
</IfModule>
at the bottom of the httpd.conf.
It does not work. I get my 404errorPage.html without any styles.
How can I fix this? Thanks.
Disclaimer : I try to set this in httpd.conf and not htaccess because "You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access to httpd main server config file. Using .htaccess files slows down your Apache http server. Any directive that you can include in a .htaccess file is better set in a Directory block, as it will have the same effect with better performance." According to this.
Your <IfModule> argument is wrong so the enclosing directive is never evaluated. The argument either needs to be the modules name (you can see
this in the corresponding LoadModule) or the main source filename.
Both "autoindex_module" and "mod_autoindex.c" work.
Here is another way to do it:
You should edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, find the code block with
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Index FollowSymLinks
</Directory>
You should remove the Index in there then restart your httpd service by
sudo service httpd restart
I'm using Joomla 2.5 and Apache and I have followed this steps:
1- mod_rewrite module is eneabled? YES
2- htaccess.txt renamed to .htaccess
3- set "Use URL Rewriting" to YES.
And this is what I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /about-us was not found on this server.
The web is located in /var/www/
The .htaccess is located in /var/www/
And this is my .htaccess: http://pastebin.com/dq1TYs1t
Thanks for the help.
Since you said allowoverride was set to none, your .htaccess file will be ignored. You need to set allowoverride to all the other option is leave allowoverride at none, and take the contents of the .htaccess file and incorporate it into your apache configuration file. This has the benefit of being slightly faster as apache doesn't need to look in directory tree for .htaccess files (they are really good to allow users that don't have access to the configs the ability to override the base settings, but if you have access to /var/www you should also have access to make changes to the config files.
There is no need to enable any mod_rewrite module.
Need to enable URL rewriting option in global configuration. Also need to rename htaccess.txt file to .htaccess.
please check there is no any third party component of security like admin tools are enable or installed which is blocking this mod rewrite option.
I have been trying to get some url rewrites to work with .htaccess after moving a site to a new host.
Nothing seemed to work, so in frustration I removed all the code from the file, uploading a blank .htaccess file to the server. The Result: FORBIDDEN.
Is this a problem with the server config? How do I go about addressing it.
EDIT
Ok, so I got it to work. I think it must have had something to do with the encoding or format (or whatever) of the .htaccess file itself. I origionally suspected something like this and messed with a bunch of stuff in notepad++, and thought I ruled that out. Earlier, in desperation, I recreated the file in regular notepad and it worked.
Thank you all for your insights...
I don't think that being empty of not will make the difference. IMHO this is happening because the virtualhost is not allowing you to override in your document root
try adding this
<Directory "/var/www/example.com">
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
where /var/www/example.com is the path to your document root
I don't know if it can be related but have you insured that you have an index page (like index.html or similar) and in your <Directory> tag of your Apache's configuration file have the directive Options All -Indexes?
Have you tried with this options?
We were forced to upgrade to Apache 2 today and as soon as we did our rule set that was working for months stopped working.
The behavior it shows is completely ignoring the .htacess, even after we delete it (.htacess) the server seems to use a "phantom" rule.
IE: site/stuff/ without .htacess should show a 404... but instead it goes to site/stuff.php (no .htacess at all!)
With
.htacess enabled
site/stuff/1/ should go to site/stuff.php?var=1 instead it goes to site/stuff.php
Any help appreciated, it's driving us crazy.
I'm going to guess it's an Apache configuration problem.
Your main httpd.conf has likely set a default for the AllowOverride directive, to None. This is a restrictive set of permissions that improves performance and security, but it means that Apache completely ignores any .htaccess files.
You need to enable AllowOverride for your serving directory, either in the main Apache config file or inside the VirtualHost directive. You can do this by specifying
AllowOverride All
inside your <VirtualHost> or <Directory> block.
EDIT (in response to comments)
Without more information, it will be pretty difficult to diagnose. If you can provide some more details, it would probably help. It does seem that your URLs are being rewritten, so you can try enabling mod_rewrite debugging to see how the rules are getting applied:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteLog "/path/to/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
</IfModule>
2nd Edit - MultiViews
After re-reading the description of your problem, I think you might have an issue with MultiViews. It sounds very similar to this thread I found. Try disabling MultiViews under your <VirtualHost> or <Directory>, they're probably mucking with your rewrite rules.
How can I get Apache to display the contents of my folder and provide links to them? Similar to http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/?
I don't have access to the Apache configuration, so I'm looking for something in the way of .htaccess or something I can do in just my home folder.
You have to use the option Indexes in the Apache configuration.
For instance, in the .htaccess file for your directory (if you can use those, and have sufficient privileges), you could put :
Options +Indexes
This functionality is provided by mod_autoindex, which has lots of options to allow fine-tuning of the generated output, btw
To get this working, that module must be loaded, and to be able to activate the option in an .htaccess file, you will need the admin of the server to give you some privileges (with the AllowOverride directive in the Apache's main config file, if I remember correctly -- well, your admin should know that better than me anyway ^^ )