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Asked: 2026-05-13T14:33:08+00:00

I have a .htaccess file that looks like this: SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development RewriteEngine On

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I have a .htaccess file that looks like this:

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

If I browse to my site I’m testing with, say http://www.example.com/, the index page loads correctly.

This is a Zend Framework application, and therefore it should route things out to my controllers, as it does correctly if I go to http://www.example.com/index/index or http://www.example.com/index, specifying the controller + action, and just the controller, respectively.

It also works if I do something like http://www.example.com/index/test, where I’ve defined another action on the index controller called test.

But if I make a TestController.php file, and attempt to go to http://example.com/test/, Apache is returning:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> 
<html><head> 
<title>404 Not Found</title> 
</head><body> 
<h1>Not Found</h1> 
<p>The requested URL /path/to/website/root/public/index.php was not found on this server.</p> 
<hr> 
<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6 PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.10 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/2.0.3 mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.8.8 Server at www.example.com Port 80</address> 
</body></html>

Can anyone see what I’ve screwed up here?

Billy3

EDIT: The configuration for my site looks something like:

Alias /MySiteRoot/ "/usr/local/vsites/something/www/"
<Directory /usr/local/vsites/something/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out that if your site is not the root of the domain, you have to add a RewriteBase directive in order for things to be formatted correctly. I’m still at a loss as to why it reported the correct file beforehand, but it seems to work now.

    Thanks and have a nice day 🙂

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