Question

I have apache & PHP on my local windows machine and my .htaccess rules work fine. I uploaded all my files to my Linux server and get different results. I have complete control of my Linux VPS. It isn’t shared hosting or anything.
I created a file showme.php that all requests should go to. showme.php just outputs some $_SERVER variables just so I know it worked. But every request to the server gives me the 404 not found. The same request locally serves up showme.php like it should.

-Local example: http://localhost/somepage (I get the correct page rendered by showme.php)

-Server example: http://mydomain.com/somepage (I get a 404 message)

Here is my .htaccess file. I can’t figure out why I get different results. Something with file permissions?

# AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
# AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . showme.php [L]

ErrorDocument 404 /page-unavailable/

<files ~ "\.tpl$">
order deny,allow
allow from none
deny from all
</files>

Answer 1

The answer was that in my httpd.conf I needed AllowOverride All set in one certain place. It was there in certain directories but I guess not as default..