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January 22nd, 2012, 09:21 AM

lokisapocalypse

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Hi all,

I'm having trouble with a mod_rewrite case. I have the following .htaccess file in the main web directory:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /myproject
  RewriteRule ^$ views/    [L]
  RewriteRule (.*) views/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

What I'm trying to do, is when a user requests a page of the form http://www.mysite.com/myproject/whatever, it loads http://www.mysite.com/myproject/views/whatever.

But when I try the code presented above, I get a 404.

So what am I doing incorrectly?

January 24th, 2012, 12:15 PM

lokisapocalypse

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Any ideas on this one?

January 24th, 2012, 12:37 PM

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This...

RewriteRule ^$ views/

isn't matching anything. ^ = start of value, $ = end of value. So your regular expression is matching "nothing" quite literally.

Try something like this...

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/myproject [NC]
  RewriteRule ^/myproject/(.*)$ /myproject/views/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

This is saying, if the request URI begins with /myproject, it should match the end portion of the URI and rewrite it.

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Last edited by Nilpo : January 24th, 2012 at 12:40 PM.

January 24th, 2012, 06:29 PM

lokisapocalypse

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Thanks for the tip Nilpo. I just confirmed with the Unix team that our webservers are configured to ignore .htaccess files. That's why my really simple examples I was trying didn't work either. Occum's razor and all.

January 24th, 2012, 06:54 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by lokisapocalypse

Thanks for the tip Nilpo. I just confirmed with the Unix team that our webservers are configured to ignore .htaccess files.

Well I guess that would certainly explain it too.

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