Move all .htacces configurations in cakephp to Apache virtual host - php

Question

My intention is to speed up the performance of the cake app. I copied all the .htaccess files from my cake app, and despite the configtest saying all is ok, I still get an internal server error when I try and load the page. Is this the correct way to bring in .htaccess files from the app directory?
<Directory /var/www/html/aga-stag>
Options Includes FollowSymLinks
Require all granted
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kwiksta\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kwiksta.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteRule ^(red5|oflaDemo) - [L]
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /app/
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
</Directory>

Answer 1

.htaccess files are valid apache conf syntax, so in principle all you need to do is copy and paste the htaccess file's contents into the right place. However don't blindly do that.
This is more appropriate for handling your kwiksta.com -> www.kwiksta.com redirects:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName kwiksta.com
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^ http://www.kwiksta.com{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</VirtualHost>
This snippet:
RewriteRule ^(red5|oflaDemo) - [L]
Is better handled by just putting (or symlinking) those folders (assuming that's what they are) into the webroot
And this is all that's required to then handle your CakePHP application:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/aga-stag/app/webroot
ServerName www.kwiksta.com
AllowOverride None # No need for htaccess files now
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</VirtualHost>
Note that the document root points at the webroot folder as it should for a any and all production installs, which renders 2 of the 3 htaccess files irrelevant.
Be sure that the rewrite rules match the version of CakePHP you are using as they changed over time.