index.php still needed, even after .htaccess - php

So I have a server running on Digital Ocean. I'm trying to run Anchor CMS on it. So this is what the URL should look like http://colourity.com/posts/hello-world. But that doesn't seem to work. When I try http://colourity.com/index.php/posts/hello-world, all works fine. But the problem here is that I'm using .htaccess to correct this, here's what I have,
Options -indexes
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 index.php
</IfModule>
That should of gotten rid of the index.php, additionally mod_rewrite is enabled. I've also restarted the server to see if that makes a difference, but it hasn't. Any ideas?

AllowOverride All must be included in the Apache configuration so that .htaccess rules can overwrite your configuration. From the documentation:
When the server finds an .htaccess file (as specified by AccessFileName) it needs to know which directives declared in that file can override earlier configuration directives.
When this directive is set to None, then .htaccess files are completely ignored. In this case, the server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the filesystem.
When this directive is set to All, then any directive which has the .htaccess Context is allowed in .htaccess files.
It's default value is All, but some template configuration files may have it manually set as None. Also note, that this syntax is only available in <Directory /> sections.

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.htaccess file not rewriting URL's correctly when project is in subdirectory

I currently have a problem with rewriting my URL's using the .htaccess file when a Laravel project is in a subdirectory.
usually when not in subdirectory having /vacancies -> /index.php/vacancies using this below .htcaccess file works.
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
Though now the project exists within a subdirectory I require the URL to be re written as so /vacancies -> /abc/index.php/vacancies.
The home page works correctly though any links just return a not found error.
What changes would I need to have the .htaccess file do this for me.
so on investigating further upon entering 'index.php' into the url itself the page loads correctly if this helps anymore with answering the question.
Thanks!
I wouldn't modify the default .htaccess provided in a Laravel app. You need to use Apache's directory alias in the virtual host config file for your site. You need to have the following format:
#Change the paths accordingly
Alias /vacancies /path/to/app/public
<Directory /path/to/app/public>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Require all granted #If using Apache 2.4 add this.
</Directory>
I managed to fix this thank you for your suggestions, This turned out to be a problem with the virtual host file and where the project was created as I have soft links let up to direct apache.
As such Apache was looking in the actual project location set in the virtual hosts file rather than the soft link one intended causing the not found issues.
Check of .ht* permissions in the apache httpd config file if you are using apache. I had the same problem and I had permissions denied problem for .htaccess file. If you are on shared host, try to contact hosting support.
Tried putting it on top of the htaccess file ? Helps for me in some kind of cases, seems weird but it does.
I notice fro your answer you've managed to "fix" this. However, you have some fundamental errors in the .htaccess file you posted, so I'm not sure how this is working exactly?
RewriteLog "/var/log/httpd/rewrite.log"
RewriteLogLevel 3
These two directives are not valid in .htaccess files and consequently will result in a 500 Internal Server Error. These can only be used directly in the server config or virtual host context. These are also Apache 2.2 directives, so won't work on Apache 2.4.
RewriteRule ^index.php [L]
(Part of the "front-controller"). You are missing a space between the first and second arguments, so this will fail to rewrite any requests to index.php - your "front-controller". (Maybe this is just a typo, but it's difficult to see a typo like this could creep in?) For example, this should be more like:
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
These directives should be before the front-controller, not at the end of the file. Otherwise, they are not going to execute for any request that is routed through your framework.
when not in subdirectory having /vacancies -> /index.php/vacancies using this below .htcaccess file works
That's not actually what the above .htaccess code does. It should simply be rewriting the request to /index.php. (The frawework/Laravel then looks at the full URL that was requested.) If it rewrote the URL to /index.php/vacancies (that some frameworks do) then you would need to read the URL using pathname information (PATH_INFO).
Though now the project exists within a subdirectory I require the URL to be re written as so /vacancies -> /abc/index.php/vacancies.
See above regarding the PATH_INFO. But if the .htaccess file is located in the document root of the site and the /abc subdirectory should be entirely hidden then you still have some work to do. You'll need to set the appropriate RewriteBase and modify the condition that removes the trailing slash off non-directories.
Otherwise, if the /abc directory is part of the URL then the .htaccess file can be moved to the /abc subdirectory, but you'll still need to modify the directives that remove the trailing slash.

Codeigniter routing is not working with following procedure

I want to do routing in code-igniter and i have done the below steps also
but it is not working.I have done all the required settings also but then also
its not working.Please let me know is i am missing any thing or not.
Step 1
Add This in .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Step 2:
Remove index.php in codeigniter config
$config['index_page'] = '';
Step 3
Add this in route.php
$route['Viewsignup'] = 'Login/index/Viewsignup';
My url is like that:
http://localhost/machinetest/index.php/Login/Viewsignup
I want this url:
http://localhost/machinetest/index.php/Viewsignup
Please help me,
Thanks in Advance
.htaccess should not be issue here. Try this
$route['Viewsignup'] = 'Login/Viewsignup';
This will take you into Login controller's Viewsignup method when your URL looks like http://localhost/machinetest/index.php/Viewsignup
And for removing index.php from URL just update your .htaccess with following
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
Now http://localhost/machinetest/Viewsignup URL will work too
On some servers, Apache is configured to ignore some or all directives in .htaccess files. This is for security reasons. The AllowOverride directive controls which features will be allowed in .htaccess files. For example AllowOverride None can turn off htaccess files for a folder and its subfolders.
Check your Apache configuration file for which AllowOverride directive is applied to the directory containing your problem htaccess file.
If you’re not sure which configuration file to look in, start with the main Apache configuration file httpd.conf or apache2.conf. If your website is configured in a file included by httpd.conf (e.g. a virtual hosts configuration file), you will need to look in that file. See Location of httpd.conf on CentOS, Ubuntu, Mac and others to locate your httpd.conf.
To enable using a .htaccess file, change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All.
For example, for a CentOS 5.3 server, I needed to change the AllowOverride setting in the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/virtualhosts.conf.
httpd.conf before:
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
httpd.conf after:
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Be aware that enabling htaccess files has security implications, as htaccess files override your Apache configuration. For example, if your site provides uploads, a hacker could potentially upload a .htaccess file to your server and use it to gain access to your server. There are options to AllowOverride that restrict the directives that will be used from a .htaccess file. See the documentation for AllowOverride.
refer http://smartwebdeveloper.com/apache/htaccess-problems

.htaccess mod_rewrite doesn't work

I have an .htaccess file in my directory where I'd like to change about-us.php to /about-us/ and I have used mod_mod_rewrite generator to do so however either I get 500 internal server errors or it doesn't work. So I checked my apache and its already enabled as default - I also have confirmed this is enabled using
/usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -l | grep rewrite
and I get
mod_rewrite.c
but this is it, my server is centos 6
I really don't know what else I need to do, do you guys have any idea? code below is another try but even this doesn't work fine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1.php
Many thanks in advance
http://httpd.apache.org:
In general, .htaccess files use the same syntax as the main
configuration files. What you can put in these files is determined by
the AllowOverride directive. This directive specifies, in categories,
what directives will be honored if they are found in a .htaccess file.
If a directive is permitted in a .htaccess file, the documentation for
that directive will contain an Override section, specifying what value
must be in AllowOverride in order for that directive to be permitted.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride
<Directory /var/www/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
As #ava points out, make sure your Apache server is set to allow directives at the directory level via htaccess. It appears that your rewrite rule is backwards. You state that you want to redirect from files (about-us.php) to a directories (about-us) but your rule is set up for the opposite.
If you're just rewriting one file, do so explictly.
Rewrite On
# Rewrite specific file (not case sensitive, stop processing rules).
RewriteRule about-us.php about-us [NC,L]
Or, you can remove .php from all files. The following reverses the answer given here.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*).php $1 [NC,L]
Also consider where the URLs are in relation to the web root and where your htaccess file is (see RewriteBase). If this is a permanent redirect, you should let bots know with [R=301].

Laravel in subfolder on webhost

I have a webapp written in Laravel that needs to run in a folder on a web host.
The app will have to be accessible via hostname.com/webhit/. This will point to the app's home page.
I only have one route:
Route::controller('/', 'HomeController');
HomeController's getIndex needs to serve the home page. This works.
However, as soon as I want to go to something like hostname.com/webhit/login, I get a 404 from Apache.
Obviously, .htaccess is not working properly. I need it to, essentially, turn URLs that look like hostname.com/webhit/login into hostname.com/webhit/index.php/login.
I have a .htaccess file in www/webhit (where index.php is located) that looks like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ webhit/index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I am not very familiar with .htaccess file syntax, but I believe it's doing something wrong.
Edit:
I did it. My .htaccess was wrong (it actually causes a redirect loop), but the issue was that it wasn't even being parsed by Apache (hence the 404 instead of a 500 due to >10 redirects in a request). I did the following steps in order to get everything to work:
Enable mod_rewrite and restart Apache (plenty of docs out there on how to do this)
But wait, there's more! By default, Apache on Ubuntu prevents URL rewrites. See this site. Most importantly, the following fragment from the URL above is very important: "By default, Ubuntu's Apache will ignore the directives in your .htaccess files." You will need to actually enable rewrites by editing \etc\apache2\sites-available\default and setting AllowOverride to all (see link above for more details).
Reload the configuration (or just restart apache).
Make sure you're using the correct .htaccess. My original version actually has a redirect loop in it. See the selected response for the correct version.
After this, I got it to work. I hope it helps future programmers having a similar issue!
Check default server requirements - laravel .htaccess file works for most situations. Try with this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I would suggest you to use resourceful controllers - mappings from your route to your controllers methods are much more clear, and you'll get full
resource with one command (routes,models,views,controllers)

Apache htaccess mod rewrite redirection using Controller GET variables in PHP index page

I am working with a custom MVC PHP framework and the index page (acting as a router) receives a GET variable "do" which contains the path that it will route to. If this variable is not set, it defaults to the Auth controller, method login.
require_once('config.php');
$controllerAction = isset($_GET['do'])?$_GET['do']:"auth/login";
require_once('core/main.php');
Then the index page (source code above) passes this $controllerAction to the main.php file, which autoloads the main controller and then loads the requested controller.
Thus, the URIs in this framework are of the form mysite.com/?do=controller/method/variable and I need it to be in the form mysite.com/controller/method/variable.
Here is the .htaccess file I tried to use, it just didn't work (I have other htaccess files working on the same server so it's not an Apache problem) :(
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ /?do=$1 [L]
Someone suggested that I can do this using PHP but I am not sure how to go about that.
Edit:
The error is that I get "This page cannot be displayed", 404 errors, whenever I try to directly access the mysite.com/controller/method links rather than the default mysite.com?do=controller/method
Further Edit
(please note that other virtual hosts work fine on my localhost):
(XAMPP) Apache Virtual Hosting Info:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:\sites\mysite.com\root\wwwroot"
ServerName mysite.com
ServerAlias mysite.com
<Directory "D:\sites\mysite.com\root\wwwroot">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
File structure (Windows):
D:\
--sites
----mysite.com
--------#client_details
--------root
-----------#devfiles
-----------#vars_pwd
-----------wwwroot
--------------config
--------------core
--------------application
------------------controllers
------------------libraries
------------------models
------------------views
----------------------css
----------------------javascript
----------------------images
----------------------icons
First of all, there are some issues with your .htaccess contents. It's always a good idea to not rewrite if a file with the requested name exists. This allows you to have an img/ folder for your images or any other static content like css files, javascript, downloads, etc.. The first RewriteCond tells Apache to only rewrite if no folder with this name exists. The second one does the same with files. Then you probably want the QSA (i.e. Query String Append) option, which will pass all other GET variables to your script.
Under this conditions you can simplify the regex and use this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?do=$1 [L,QSA]
You might be surprised because this is more or less the same as others posted. I use similar things for many of my projects and I've just tested it, I can guarantee that it works. There must be something wrong with your apache config.
When you have problems with mod_rewrite, the first thing you should try is to enable the module itself. Type these commands as root in your shell:
a2enmod rewrite
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
The first one activates the module (or complains with Module rewrite already enabled if everything is ok) and the second one restarts your Apache server. The path may of course be different on your server.
Then you have to make sure that your VHost config allows you to use .htaccess files and do rewrites. This means AllowOverride must be set to at least FileInfo (or All). You could also try to put the rewrite rules right into the config file. Your config should look similar to this:
<VirtualHost *:*>
ServerName test.example.com
ServerAlias www.test.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/sites/test/
<Directory "/home/sites/test/">
Allow from all
AllowOverride All
Options +Indexes
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note that you have to restart Apache if you change anything in there.
If that all doesn't help, it's always a good idea to have a look at the error logs. On my system they're located at /var/log/apache2/error.log (debian). They might give you more information on what's going wrong.
Try
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)$ index.php?do=$1 [L]
Try
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?do=$1 [L]
Check your apache logs, access logs specifically. If the folder is present in the web root, then you should be able to access it directly :). You might also want to check if you have duplicate virtualhost entries for the same site by chance.
This one is my customized MVC framework which is based on cake
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?do=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
May be this should help. The typical URL pattern for this site.com/controller/method
I don't know what your domain setup is like, but here are some suggestions.
If your code resides in the root of your folder, and the index file is called index.php try the following:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?do=$1 [L,QSA]
If your website exists in a subfolder e.g. www.example.com/site/, and the index file is index.php Then try the following (change /site/ to whatever your folder is).
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /site/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /site/index.php?do=$1 [L,QSA]
If you still get the 404 error message then do the following:
Make sure your site allows .htaccess files to be processed by checking AllowOverride is set to all. If you don't have access to the necessary config files to check, a simple test is to setup an .htaccess rule to redirect to a dummy file on your system. If it works, then your .htaccess is being executed fine.
Have a look at your MVC framework to see what page it's actually sending the request to. The problem may be that you haven't defined a handler for that particular request, and the default action of your MVC framework is to throw a 404 error.
Edit: Just reading your description, I notice you said that the URL should basically be something like mysite.com/?do=controller/method/variable. If it has be very strict about this format, then you'll also need to put in rules for removing any leading or trailing slashes, e.g. the following re-write rule should do it:
RewriteRule ^\?(.*)\?$ /index.php?do=$1 [L,QSA]
(This makes the leading and trailing slashes optional, but it should remove them from the actual value you pass to do).

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