Preventing conflicts with WP mod_rewrite code

and speeding it up as well

[wheel]

I've got wordpress installed in my root folder, and some other unrelated stuff in my /cgi-bin.

When I install the wordpress permalinks htaccess in my root, stuff in my cgi-bin directory gets an access denied error message:

here's my wordpress htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

And here's what's in the <directory> block for my cgi-bin in my httpd conf file:
AllowOverride All
Options None ExecCGI
DirectoryIndex index.html
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Any thoughts on what's causing my cgi-bin programs to get access denied? Or how to opt out my cgi-bin directory from the root .htaccess directives?

[aredman]

Jim:

You made a comment about making a similar modification to the htaccess file of a Joomla site. Here is a portion of my htaccess file. Would you be willing to indicate the changes necessary for me as well?

# mod_rewrite in use

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ourfullhouse.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [ourfullhouse.com...] [L,R=301]

# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root)

# RewriteBase /


########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section

Much appreciated!

Andy

[g1smd]

The non-www to www redirect can be improved:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(www\.example\.com)?$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above will redirect for all non-canonical hostnames, including requests with trailing port numbers, etc.



The Joomla changes are documented and discussed here:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]
[docs.joomla.org...]

The patch is here:
[joomlacode.org...] [1218 bytes]

[aredman]

Thanks much for the input on the redirect and also the links!

Grateful,

Andy

[aredman]

With the patch that you've submitted, how/where does it get applied? Does it make these changes?

########## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html|\.htm|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) index.php
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#
########## End - Joomla! core SEF Section

to...

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/|\.php|\.html?|\.feed|\.pdf|\.raw|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [L]

[aredman]

As a note, I've applied the above recommended changes to my htaccess file.

[g1smd]

The patch makes the changes listed on the mentioned Joomla

docs:talk

page to the

.htaccess

file.

The

[F,L]

flag becomes just

[F]

and the rest of the code changes to:

RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (/(component/)?|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|raw)|/[^.]*)$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]

This alone will give a noticeable speed increase for any site using Joomla.

[g1smd]

Updated code for Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.6 is here: [webmasterworld.com...]