Question

I want to start using mod_rewrite so i can use friendly url’s in the future. Im testing all in my localhost dev. environment but, Im not having any luck getting the module to work!

My modules is enabled (apache restarted):

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

The file named mod_rewrite.so exists under the modules folder in my Apache installation directory

I’ve created a file named .htaccess under c:/public_html/

For testing purposes, ive created my first rules like so:

RewriteEngine On
# Translate my-product.html to /product.php?id=123
RewriteRule ^my-product\.html$ /product.php?id=123

for testing purposes, the product.php is extremely simple:

<?php
  // display product details
  echo 'You have selected product #' . $_GET['id'];
?>

When i load http://localhost/my-product.html I get the error:

The requested URL /my-product.html was not found on this server.

When i go see the log, i see:

[Thu Sep 22 02:37:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/public_html/my-product.html

It looks like it doesn’t recognize the .htaccess rule at all!

I’m not sure what to do next, i feel i’ve applied all the simpliest rules to get started with mod_rewrite but with no luck!

Help!

Thanks
Marco

Answer 1

Have you changed the Allowoverride property in httpd.conf file to ‘All’.

To check whether the mod-rewrite is enabled in your server, load the phpinfo file and search for the mod_rewrite extension.