Strange htaccess Problem - php

I have a website with this in the .htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?menu=$1 [L,QSA]
#DirectoryIndex index.php
My problem is even, if I change a single letter the website is rendering a 500 Error. Even if I empty complete file, it still shows me the 500 Error.
What I want to do is, there is a page like this on the domain
http://www.example.co.uk/brochure/generate.php
The file generate.php does exist in /brochure/ directory.
But still the generate.php does not load and it is loading the index.php file.
Any help?

Try the following which I know should work:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#Turn the Rewrite Engine ON
RewriteEngine On
#Set the base where to rewrite the requests
RewriteBase /
#Allow direct file access
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#Allow direct directory access
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#Disallow certain files.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !brochure\/generate\.php$
#Rewrite URLS To GET[menu] and make sure this is the last rule.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?menu=$1 [L]
</IfModule>
if you do not see any rewriting taking palce then check to see the module for rewrite is installed.

If an empty file triggers a 500 status code as well, then the error is somewhere else: you are not editing the real .htaccess file being used by Apache, the error comes from the application, etc.
In any case, you should find the error log: that's where the exact details are shown. In Linux, it's normally under /var/log/httpd. In Windows, it can be under %ProgramFiles%\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\logs. If it's a shared hosting account, you'll probably have an "Errors" or "Logs" feature in your control panel.

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Redirect all requests to single page

I have a food blog website, with many posts stored in a database. When someone clicks on a link to a post, the website searches the database for the post and presents it in a template. I don't store an HTML file for each post.
Right now, I do it by handling a 404 error (which goes off because the requested HTML file doesn't exist) and searching the database from there. I know this isn't right.
How can I set up my web server (Apache running on a Raspberry Pi), so that all requests go to one page, which will do the searching and send the user to the right page? And is this the right thing to do?
You can do that with a file you put in your website root named .htaccess and using the mod_rewrite module. You'll need to make sure .htaccess and mod_rewrite are enabled in the Apache configuration. But once enabled you can do something like this:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?path=$1 [NC,L,QSA]
That will rewrite any URL that doesn't refer to an actual existing file or directory to your index.php which you can use to handle the request.
For example, if someone visits http://yourdomain.com/article, the path will be internally rewritten to index.php?path=article and you can access the path using $_GET['path'].
Note: If you want to literally serve everything through that single entry point you could remove the two middle lines and that would send everything through there. Including images, scripts, CSS etc, which is generally not what you want.
You need proper .htaccess rules in your public root directory and you need a apache2 mod_rewrite module enabled.
On Ubuntu you can can enable it with the following command:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
your .htaccess file could look like the following:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$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}]
</IfModule>

htaccess - will not recognize url pattern

I have tested the following pattern in online testers and everyone of them the has it working fine. In addition the rules are working for other similar iterations no problem.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !404 [NC]
RewriteRule ^manager/services/([\w\-]+) manager/services/controller.php?PAGE=$1 [QSA,L,R=302]
For the REQUEST URI (cant give the URL atm as its still insecure):
/manager/services/get-items
But this rule is throwing a 404 error. controller most definitely exists and I can visit it manually with no problem..
The only other possibility I Can think of is some kind of interaction with the directory level htaccess which only as allow,deny for my ip address setup but no redirects.
Put this in the htaccess in the root and give this a try.
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^manager/services/([^/]+)/? /manager/services/controller.php?PAGE=$1 [QSA,L]
I'm assuming you have htaccess enabled since you said you had other stuff in there but make sure it's set to AllowOverride All in Apache config.
Edit:
Or you can try and add the code to the manager folder htaccess file with this.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /manager/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^services/([^/]+)/? services/controller.php?PAGE=$1 [QSA,L]
For posterity I had a directory named 'services' in the web root on a GoDaddy server. Something is mucking it up and causing a mix of 404 and 500 errors for anything related to that folder.
Renaming the folder to web_services resolved the issue.

Remove php file extension from the url

I know this question has been asked like a 1000 times and I have probably tried like a 1000 suggestions as well, still no go.
I would like to remove the php file extension and substitute it with a slash (the slash is not so important but to remove the extension is).
My project is located here:
localhost/~fn/MyProject/
It contains two folders, public and includes. So all the public files are in the public folder: localhost/~fn/MyProject/public/index.php
I have tried so many suggestions already but most of them simply don't work. I am getting either a Internal Server Error, Forbidden or 404. I am putting the .htaccess to the public folder. Mod rewrite is on. No success with anything on stackoverflow and neither external resources ( e.g. http://alexcican.com/post/how-to-remove-php-html-htm-extensions-with-htaccess/ ). For example using the rewrite rules from the metioned webpage shows me 403 Forbidden to even access the index.
Any hints of what I may be doing wrong? I am really stuck. Thanks a lot!
If your htaccess is in public project folder, try with this code
Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*public/(.+)\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~fn/MyProject/public/%1? [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~fn/MyProject/public/$1.php [L]
If the directory has an Index.php in it, the url will not show the file name when you browse to that folder. example.com/index.php would just show as example.com. You could use PHP includes to pull in each page to the index page in order to hide the file names but this isn't the best practice in general.
Put this in a .htaccess file in localhost/~fn/MyProject/ (so the file will be localhost/~fn/MyProject/.htaccess):
RewriteRule ^(.+?)\.php$ $1/ [QSA,L]
This captures anything ending in .php, strips off the .php, adds a /, and appends any query string as needed.
If you want only remove extension ".php" from index.php you should use mode_rewrite
RewriteRule ^index.php$ index // or
RewriteRule ^index.php$ /
But best way is implements mechanism to rewrite all urls and manage in your front script (index.php);
If you want use mode_Rewrite you shuold check if your mod_Rewrite is enabled on your Apache server. Go to apache.conf and check if line
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
is uncomented, dont forgot restart apache!
than you can On rewrite rule type in your apache.conf
<IfModule mod_rewrite>
RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>
or include something like in .htacces
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* index.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
Now all signs from urls will going to your once index.php. Here you can do with this everything what do you need to do for example u can call some controller.
If you get 403 Forbiden dont forgot check chmod of the file.
To remove the .php extension from a PHP file for example yoursite.com/demo.php to yoursite.com/demo, you can add the following code to the .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^([^\.]+)$ $1.php [NC,L]

htaccess causes 500 if page doesn't exist

I am currently using this code to remove the .php extension of my files on my apache web server.
Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]
two questions:
1: when someone requests a page that doesn't exist, my web server is returning a 500 error instead of a 404. how can I fix this?
2: how can I force a 404 if someone requests the .php extension?
thank you in advance.
The 500 error for non-existent pages is happening because mod_rewrite is going into an infinite loop trying to rewrite your request and terminates eventually.
Rewrite the rules like this to make sure the file with the PHP extension actually exists:
Options -Multiviews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]
The RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f line will cause the rewrite to take place only if "file.php" exists.
example.com/about-us.php to go to example.com/about-us.html
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php
This is not complete answer.
I try to explain how RewriteEngine works, if you don't understand that htaccess feature completely.
Apache server 'receives' some 'not real' url from your browser. Then it reads .htaccess, and by using information from that file it converts that 'not real' url to 'real' url pointing to physical file on server.
Error details are always saved to apache (httpd) error log. You have to read it, and if it not tells you anything - paste it here - we will help.
Forcing 404 error is bad idea in this case. You should fix error, not override it.

Can't turn on the rewrite engine

I have encountered a problem, while implementing MVC design patterns for my website. I have a folder named "svce" inside the folder /www (which is my DOCUMENT_ROOT). I created a .htaccess file and wrote the following codes inside it:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.+)$index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
Then I edited the httpd.conf file and uncommented the LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so.
Even after doing this, RewriteEngine is not working. When I try to access application using http://localhost/svce/blahblah.php, it gives me a default 404 error page.
IT should have shown me only the index page inside the /svce directory.
You're missing a space:
# here -----------v
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
Without that space, the rule wants to rewrite a URI that looks like /something/$index.phpurl=$1 and rewrite it to [QSA,L], which is probably not a valid resource.
Additionally make sure you have AllowOverride All set in your server config.

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