Cakephp redirection problem

Question

I have a problem of too many redirection in one cakephp site.

Here is the site: http://pexinxas24.com/

This domain is pointed to root of the site and not to app folder.

Here is the code which is placed in htaccess of the root folder.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /app/
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
 </IfModule>

Here is the code which is places in the htaccess of the app folder.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /app/
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
 </IfModule>

I am not getting any typs of PHP or cakephp errors.

This site always redirect to the root of the site. Whole code was working properly on old server. I have just changed the server and getting this error.

Answer 1

Looks like your are using Amazon-EC2 right? ;)

Well, probably you aren't redirected for the next reasons:

1. mod_rewrite it isn't enabled : Look inside of your httpd.conf, you should have the next line uncommented:

   LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

2. You haven't enabled override in htaccess : Look inside of your http.conf for the
   directive "Directory", inside you should have something like this:

   \n    <Directory "/var/www/html"> \n       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks \n       AllowOverride All \n       Order allow,deny \n       Allow from all \n    </Directory> \n

   The most important line of the previous code is AllowOverride All , on amazon instances is set to AllowOverride none by default, so you should change it to All , after that you must restart your apache server to reflect changes.

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

This is an old thread. Probably if you understand about apache2 Ismael's answer is quite enough, but if you're a newbe in this subject as I am, might be useful saying that in apache2 nowadays you should "replace" the part one where he says

mod_rewrite it isn't enabled: Look inside of your httpd.conf, you should have the next line uncommented: LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

for copying rewrite.load from mods-available to mods-enabled :

cp /etc/apache2/mods-available/rewrite.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load