Installing mod_rewrite

Configuring apache for mod_rewrite

[revolocity]

I know this should be simple, but I just installed Apache 2.0.48 and haven't managed to get mod_rewrite enabled. I have configure apache to include it (./configure [...] --enable-rewrite), but I can't figure out what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nathan

[RonPK]

You need to add this line:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to httpd.conf. And then restart the server.
(modules being the directory where the .so-file is ...)

[revolocity]

But there is no mod_rewrite.so file. Thats the problem.

[RonPK]

Ah. Try this:

./configure --enable-rewrite=shared

The =shared thing should instruct the compiler to build the .so . 'so' is short for shared object: a module that is not compiled into the main daemon, but instead will be loaded when asked for in httpd.conf.