Question

I have a personal website with a MediaWiki installation on a shared host. The Apache configuration treats all .php request with PHP 4, and all .php5 requests with PHP5.

For compatibility reasons I need to be able to use the .php extension, but MediaWiki is only available on PHP5. I tried to use the mod_rewrite engine, but I’m stuck with the rule.

Here’s the current file:

DirectoryIndex index.php5  RewriteEngine on   # This rewrites URIs in the form /pages/Article_Name to /index.php5?title=Article_Name. RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/pages/index.php5.*$ [NC]     RewriteRule ^pages/?(.*)$ /index.php5?title=$1 [L]  # This is the broken rule RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^index\.php(([^5])(.*))?$ [NC]        RewriteRule ^index\.php(([^5])(.*))?$ /index.php5?$1 [L] 

The idea of the rule was ‘Redirect all content from index.php (not followed by ‘5’) to index.php5′.

Any idea?

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Edit:

SetEnv PHP_VER 5 

works, but I’m still interested on why the rule was not taken into account.

Answer 1

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.php5 [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php $1.php5 [L] 

I found this on the following web site which may be useful, you could make it more specific and remove the catchall to change only a certain number of .php files if you liked.

You can also customize it to suit only a certain directory using the RewriteBase condition.