Apache + mod_rewrite

i've got a problem with mod_rewrite - it doesn't work.
(~)$ cat /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf| grep mod_rewrite
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
(~)$ cat /home/httpd/html/.htaccess
Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index.html$ index.php [L]
http://localhost/index.php works fine but http://localhost/index.html gives 404 error
could someone know, where the fsck is problem?
btw sorry for my english if i made some mistakes. i'm from poland

thanks. it was allowoverride's fault.
and btw i've got another problem. apache don't parse php files when them are in different directory than "/home/httpd/html", e.g. if i set DocumentRoot (and <Directory "..."> too, of course) to "/mnt/data/htdocs". why?
Last edited by dawidgarus (2007-12-30 16:40:18)

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This is the responce I have had from my website designer.
Happy new year to you also. Re Dreamweaver it’s not a tool we use I’m afraid, we generally use tools like Netbeans and code oriented text editors so I’m not best placed to advise on the config of it. I have used it back in 2003, it’s a great development platform, but I just ended up working with other tools.
Looking at the post though, you seem to have got the site running but the issue seems to be the friendly URLs. As David correctly identified, .htaccess and mod_rewrite are used to effect this. If you don’t have the correct .htaccess file in place this aspect of the navigation won’t work. You should also be running the site from the root directory – both the production (live) website and our development environments are setup in this way, so though I don’t think we implement root relative URIs in the site navigation, I can’t say there won’t be issues running it in a subdirectory off http://locahost without reviewing all the code, which I haven’t.
The .htaccess file you need is on your live website, but many FTP clients will not display this by default, so your FTP download may have missed it.
You can create it yourself, it needs the following directives. The “.” on the front of the filename is very important.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
That should solve your navigation issue, providing the Apache mod_rewrite module is enabled. If it doesn’t I can’t really help you further, other than to suggest you get a second hosting account online. I seem to think you can use a remote development environment in Dreamweaver. The advantage here is that you’ll have an environment that you know to work, with all the components installed. No disrespect, but even we can spend ages configuring our development servers to work as we need, and much depends on the installation approach you use in setting up Apache, PHP and MySQL
Re the database, as David has sussed there is no MySQL database to concern yourself with. Other red herrings include login and register handlers which are not implemented. Your original brief included the possibility of a customer login to access your quotes & progress reports down the line, so we allowed for that in the initial build and planned for MySQL access but didn’t implement those features.
Hope that helps. Great to see how far you’ve come with this – I probably couldn’t get as far building in the same time! Also glad to see that the comments re the code and structure are good – it’s always interesting to see what another developer, who obviously knows his stuff, thinks of your code!!
Regards
Oliver Phillips
http://www.eantics.co.uk
OMG ITS WORKING NOW!!!!!
1. Move all files and folders for the website to the main root directory http://localhost/
2. Open notepad and copy/paste code above in to note pad.
3. Click Save As from files menu. Change save format to all files and call it .htaccess (dont forget to put the ''.'' before htaccess)
4. Move .htaccess file to the root directory of the local/testing site.
and that's it!
There is just one small problem, I have had to move the XAMPP folder out of the root directory http://localhost for the links to work in DW CS5. When I first tried the link on my home page (both in DW CS5 and Browser) it redirected me to the XAMPP home page.
I think the solution for this would be to put XAMPP back in http://localhost/xampp and move website file and folders to vhost.

Apache + mod_rewrite

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