Move .htaccess wordpress directives to apache config file

Question

I'm trying to avoid .htaccess files in WordPress. I tried to move all directives to an apache config file, enclosing them into tags, but it doesn't work.

I'm using Apache/2.4.37

My current config at apache is:

<VirtualHost *:443>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@mydomain.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/myweb
    ServerName myweb.mydomain.com
    ErrorLog logs/myweb.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/myweb.com-access_log common

    SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/certificate/myweb.crt
    SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/certificate/myweb.key

    <Directory "/var/www/html/myweb">
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteBase /
        RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Is there any way to avoid .htaccess rewrites?

Answer 1

You need to consider that there are some slight differences in the situation when you move the code.

1. RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] does not make sense in the global configuration, since RewriteRules work on absolute path there as opposed to distributed configuration files where they work on relative paths ... So it should be RewriteRule ^/index\.php$ - [L] instead, note the leading slash.

2. RewriteBase / does not make any sense in the global configuration, remove that one.

3. Move the code block outside the <Directory...>...</Directory> block. The rules should get applied globally.

4. You could replace the L flag with the END flag. You may want to take a look into the documentation about that.

And you need to take care that wordpress is happy even if it can not mess around with configuration files.