apache url rewrite connection reset on root directory

Question

in my apache sites-available/default file i had change the config to folowing:

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All             //originally was AllowOverride None
    FallbackResource rewrite.php  //i added this line, too
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

i wanted to handle all url calls in my own rewrite.php file. this works, when i visit my site at http://192.168.1.104:4567/web/knxzkcha but doesnt work when i go for http://192.168.1.104:4567/web/ . i got this problem in firefox : The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

the index site http://192.168.1.104:4567/web/index.php works flawlessly and shows me my index.php file. all i want is to let me show the index file when visiting the root directory, too. /var/www points to the /web directory. i have some ubuntu 12.04 server 64 LTS edition

when i rewert the config lines, the root gives me the index file by default.

Answer 1

You do not need to add AllowOverride All , telling apache to avoid IO by checking existence of .htaccess files in current directory and all parents directories with AllowOverride None is a good recipe for speed. Avoid .htaccess files if you can edit Apache configuration.

Now FallbackResource is a quite new feature and may have some bugs. Did you check the ErrorLog for details? Could you try that with LogLevel debug ?

It seems you problems is with directories, maybe you could fix it by enforcing usage of your fallback when a Directory is requested, try to add:

DirectoryIndex  rewrite.php