CakePHP issues with .htaccess file on site5 server - php

Question

Building a CakePHP website for a client, it runs perfectly on my local environment, and when being tested on my server. However, when I transferred it to the client's site5 server it returned nothing but 404 errors.
After some modifications to the .htaccess files I was able to get the default landing page working fine:
http://174.120.222.98/~sty/
The issue I have, is that only the default landing page can be found. All of the sub-pages are still returning 404 errors (example: "NEW STUDENTS" Green-background link in NavBar).
I've changed the root/.htaccess file to:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~sty
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
without RewriteBase /~sty The default landing page is a 404.
I've changed root/app/.htaccess file to:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Without this change, none of the files in webroot loaded (images/styles/js).
Those two files alone seem to be all I need for the default page, I can even remove the root/app/.htaccess file and the landing page looks great. So I'm assuming the app file is the one that will govern my sub-pages. Nothing I've done to it seems to work, it is currently set to:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /~sty
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
I've tried to RewriteBase with \, \~sty, \~sty\app and without the line so far none of my changes seem to work.
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Answer 1

mod_rewrite is not enabled on your server so you have to handle this with .htaccess file in your root directory
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
and another .htaccess in your app folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
and another one in your webroot folder
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>