Question

I am working on setting up an instance of Mango Blog on an Ubuntu Server running Apache 2 HTTPD and Tomcat 6 with Railo 3.1.2. I was able to get everything setup until I started trying to implement URL rewriting for the blog URLs.

I used a combination of Adam Tuttle’s and John Sieber’s posts to get the rewrite rules. I have the site setup as follows:

{webroot}/.htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# archives rule must be located before page rule for paging to work correctly
RewriteRule archives/(.*)$              archives.cfm/$1 [PT,L,NC]
RewriteRule page/(.*)$                  page.cfm/$1 [PT,L,NC]
RewriteRule post/(.*)$                  post.cfm/$1 [PT,L,NC]
RewriteRule author/(.*)$                author.cfm/$1 [PT,L,NC]

{apache-home}/sites-enabled/sitename

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerAdmin *******

        DocumentRoot /var/www/******/www
        ServerName mango.*****.com
        DirectoryIndex index.cfm

        <Directory /var/www/*******.com/www/>
                Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error-*******_com.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access-********_com.log combined

        ProxyPreserveHost Off
        ProxyPassMatch ^/(.+\.cf[cm])(/.*)?$ ajp://********.com:8009/

</VirtualHost>

When I visit blog posts by going to /post/hello-world on the site I get a 404 error. If I go to /post.cfm/hello-world the post comes up just fine. I tried the rewrite rules against a rewrite tester, and that said that the rewrites should work fine. I am very new to rewriting, so I apologize if this is something simple.

Answer 1

Put in your .htaccess file:

Options -Multiviews