Question

Alright, I’m just trying to setup a simple rewrite rule for a site.
First off, in httpd.conf I have

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Then in a seperate file I have this alias setup

Alias /vworker/ "f:/vWorker/" 

<Directory "f:/vWorker/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

Alright now, so the directory of the site is

f:/vWorker/urlmask

In there I have an .htaccess file that says this

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^redirect/([0-9]+)/?$ index.php?redirect=$1 [L]

Now, what I want, is if I go to the url http://localhost/vworker/urlmask/redirect/3161513 it will actually call http://localhost/vworker/urlmask/index.php?redirect?3161513

From my point of view everything seems to be set up right, and if I put gibberish in my .htaccess file I get a server error, so I know it’s reading it.

What I end up with is a page that says “Not Found. The requested URL /vworker/urlmask/redirect/94173336828903446 was not found on this server.”
Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

Answer 1

In general, whenever you’ve got an Alias, you’re going to need a RewriteBase to make things work as expected.

In your case, you should have

RewriteBase /vworker/urlmask/

in the same .htaccess as your rules.