Question

i am currently trying to learn about clean urls. i was using windows once.
i switched to ubuntu when suddenly my .htaccess seems to be not working
here is my htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

so i have this url

http://localhost/index.php/my_name/

i was expecting it to say the ‘my_name’ string in the browser

hello my_name

but it would only work whenever i add a ‘?’ in the uri

http://localhost/index.php?/my_name/

i am pretty sure mod_rewrite is enabled. i even checked my phpinfo()

Answer 1

It sounds like the rewrite module is disabled. Edit your apache configuration and load the dynamic module for mod_rewrite if available. It would look like this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

If you’re using Ubuntu, run sudo a2enmod rewrite to enable the module following by restarting the Apache server:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart