Why is this .htaccess file mod_rewrite not working?

Question

I'm using MAMP and CodeIgniter. The root of my website is: /Users/Roy/Websites/CodeIgniter-3.0.2 In the Websites folder I also have some other project but I don't think that matters. Here is the apache httpd.conf file: http://pastebin.com/Am0ew0C0

In my .htaccess file I'm using the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

<IfModule authz_core_module>
   Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !authz_core_module>
   Deny from all
</IfModule>

the .htaccess file is located at: /Users/Roy/Websites/CodeIgniter-3.0.2/.htaccess I have no idea why the mod_rewrite isn't working, it's supposed to eliminate the use of index.php in the url because the URL I have to use now is: http://localhost:8888/CodeIgniter-3.0.2/index.php/about

And I would like that to become: http://localhost:8888/CodeIgniter-3.0.2/about PHP version 5.6.10 is used. the .htaccess file is not being read by apache, that is the problem here, how to fix it?

Answer 1

Problem solved, there is no need to mess with the httpd.conf with MAMP installed. Simply get CodeIgniter and place it in the htdocs folder inside MAMP. After that create a .htaccess file inside the CodeIgniter folder (not the application folder inside there) and use the following code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /ci/
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Now you have clean URL's and no longer need to use /index.php/about but can just do /about.

Answer 2

It maybe from the fact of what you set your document root to /Users/Roy/Websites/ in your httpd.conf file. Personally I would use virtualhosts if you plan to have multiple websites so that each one can have it's own .conf and you can set the Document root specifically for each site.

Anyway, so right now your CodeIgniter-3.0.2 is a subfolder of Websites which is your document root. So most likely you're having a problem with the rewrite base.

If you have your files and .htaccess in the codeigniter folder, your .htaccess will need to look like this.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /CodeIgniter-3.0.2
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|resources|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

Answer 3

You can use this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /Project_Name
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
  ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>

Answer 4

It look like file permission issue. check out the properties of your .htaccess file and change the permission.

The try with this code.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]

for more try http://w3code.in/2015/09/how-to-remove-index-php-file-from-codeigniter-url

Answer 5

.htaccess could be very frustrating. take a lot at what really works

1.Your .htaccess should look like this

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /booking/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^application.*
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]

</IfModule>

2.Replace line 3 with the root directory name of your project, in my own case 'localhost/booking/'

3.Copy the .htaccess file from the application folder to the root directory. This means that you will now have to instances of .htaccess file in you entire project.

4.in your config.php , Base url should look like this in my own case

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/booking/'

5.

$config['index_page'] = '';

6.

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';

7. turn on Mod-rewrite in your httpd.conf file by removing the # preceding this line

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

I hope this solves your problem