Question

I have an htaccess file with a simple rewrite rule.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ index.php?page=$1

On my web server, the index.php file is in /var/www, and it works normally.

On my local host, the index.php fle is in /var/www/projects/porto and while the file runs normally, no linked content ( images, css, etc ) is loaded.

I am totally new to htaccess files. Any ideas on how to work around it so I can do my testing in my locan environment?

All I’ve tried is changing my .htaccess file to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /running/Porto/index.php?page=$1

But no luck.

Answer 1

Okay, so continuing our discussion on setting up a VirtualHost on your local machine/environment, it is roughly the same as on your other server. If you can copy the Apache configuration file from the web server then that will be a good start. At a minimum you will need something like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName localdevsite.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/running/Proto
</VirtualHost>

(This assumes that somewhere in the file you have NameVirtualHost *:80)

The one additional thing you will need to do in your local environment is add a hosts entry:

In Linux you usually do this in /etc/hosts with something like:

127.0.0.1 localdevsite.com