Forum Moderators: phranque
I am new to WebmasterWorld.com and have found your forums to be very useful and informative. However, in using some of the methods described in the forums I have hit a stumbling block.
I have setup apache to use mod_rewrite with the following configure options:
./configure --enable-so --with-layout=Apache --enable-ssl --enable-rewrite --enable-shared=rewrite
As I understand those options, it will install mod_rewrite as a built-in module and not required to load in httpd.conf. A further look into my file structure shows no occurance of mod_rewrite.so or mod_rewrite.c *except* in the src directory.
I created a test .htaccess file (using a sample from this forum, forgotten the author) with a simple rewrite rule as follows:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sillyfile\.html$ /index.html [L]
When accessing [domain.com...] I get a 404 error. My error log is:
[Mon Jan 17 15:31:38 2005] [error] [client #*$!.xxx.xxx.xxx] File does not exist: /path/to/domain/sillyfile.html
(IP and directory omitted, files serve fine from DocumentRoot)
I have also tried mod_rewrite with a false directive hoping for an Internal 500 error with the following:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
foo_directive
The above returns the index.html without errors.
I have searched this forum and others for the answer but I'd like to get past this problem and focus on other aspects of the site. Thank you.
-MF
