[solved] Pretty URL's with mod_rewrite not working

[cnymike]

I've read of similar problems in the forum but the solutions proposed do not work for me so here goes...

I am able to get Internal Pretty URL's to work.

The problem is that I am unable to get Pretty URL's using mod_rewrite to work.

Here is my .htaccess file:

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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

# Turns off directory browsing
# not absolutely essential, but keeps people from snooping around without 
# needing empty index.html files everywhere
Options -Indexes

# No sense advertising what we are running
ServerSignature Off

# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# URL Filtering helps stop some hack attempts
#IF the URI contains a "http:"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\: [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "["
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \[ [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "]"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \] [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "<__script__>"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
#OR script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
#OR any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) 
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L] 
# END Filtering

# CMSMS Rewriting
# Set assume mod_rewrite to true in config.php and clear CMSMS cache
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?page=$1 [QSA]
# END CMSMS

Here is my config.php file:

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#------------
#URL Settings
#------------

$config['assume_mod_rewrite'] = true;
$config['page_extension'] = '.html';
$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;
$config['use_hierarchy'] = true;
$config['query_var'] = 'page';

The home page of my site displays, but as soon as I click on any other link, I get a 404 Not Found error

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Not Found

The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

If I manually insert an 'index.php' into the URL of the page that generated the error, then the page shows up.

So this is obviously a very simple error in configuration somewhere, but I do not know how to fix it.

I will add the eventual 'fix' to the documentation wiki once I've learned the answer.

thanks.

[moorezilla]

Try getting rid of your [NC]'s at the end of your .htaccess lines. i doubt you need them, and they may be hosing it.

Also... the apache error.log may give you a better idea of errors.

config.php looks ok to me.

[cnymike]

Removing the [NC] did not help. Removing the [NC] resulted in me getting an error page from my Web Host instead of a page not found error.

Unfortunately I do not have access to the apache error log.

[nivekiam]

Try setting:

$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;

to true

$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = true;


That's the only setting I can see that is different between yours and mine.

If that doesn't work then I would comment out these lines.  If it works after that, then you can start enabling them 1 by 1 to see what is causing the problem.

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# 301 Redirect all requests that don't contain a dot or trailing slash to
# include a trailing slash
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.
RewriteRule ^(.*) %{REQUEST_URI}/ [R=301,L]

# URL Filtering helps stop some hack attempts
#IF the URI contains a "http:"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http\: [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "["
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \[ [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "]"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \] [OR]
#OR if the URI contains a "<__script__>"
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
#OR script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
#OR any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) 
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [F,L] 
# END Filtering

[cnymike]

Try setting:

$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = false;

to true

$config['internal_pretty_urls'] = true;

But I don't want to use Internal Pretty URL's, I want to use mod_rewrite Pretty URL's. I can't have both set to "true". Or am I just not understanding what you are telling me to do?

[nivekiam]

I have both set to true and it works just fine.  Though I just set mine to false and it still works.  So I doubt setting to true for you would fix it.

Did commenting out the URL filtering or the redirect to trailing slash lines work?

EDIT: Also, is CMSms in the root of your site or is it in a sub-directory?

[cnymike]

Did commenting out the URL filtering or the redirect to trailing slash lines work?

No, commenting out everything you suggested did not fix anything.

Hmmm, I just did something to test this on another install I have of CMSMS on the same server

I have another site in a subdirectory of my home directory that mod_rewrite works when I just configured it to use mod_rewrite. So maybe the problem is this...

The problem I have been experiencing is on a site under development that does not have a domain attached to it yet, so I am going in to my web host as

http://myServerName.myWebHost.com/myUse ... imple-1.2/

instead of using, for example, http://www.myDomain.com/cmsmadesimple-1.2/

Do you think this could be the cause of all this? Some sort of Apache thing because I am not using a "real" domain.

[nivekiam]

Try setting RewriteBase above all of your ReWrite rules:

# Might be needed in a subdirectory
RewriteBase /myUser/playground/cmsmadesimple-1.2

I have CMSms in a sub-directory of my site for testing and I had to do that.

[cnymike]

YES! That was it!

Thank you so much for solving this vexing problem. I hope I can repay the favor!

edit: I've applauded  you for that!

[nivekiam]

Great!  Just remember to change that when you make the site live   (that's bitten me in before too)

I have a feeling you've probably already posted some fix to some problem that I'll come across.