Topic: mod_rewrite

[haymann]

haymann i tried your suggestion, but when i do that i now get 'forbidden' errors. Its obviously something but hasn't helped with mod-rewrite lol
Any further suggestions?

I had installed the WordPress contrib awhile back and have been using it since with no problems. I finally decided to see what I needed to do to get permalinks working and a forum search brought me back to this thread I was involved in some time ago... Has anyone been successful in getting permalinks to work?

I did try adding

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$OUT .=    AllowOverride all\n"; to the /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/92wordpress file with hopes that would allow the .htaccess file to be used. I also ran this after I modified the file

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expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
/etc/init.d/httpd-e-smith restartI know that is a messy way to do it, but I wanted to see if it worked, it didn't...

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ryan

[haymann]

A follow-up... I quite searching for permalinks and tried mod_rewrite instead and found this

I have just verified the above procedure using WAMP on Windows.
Here, it all works properly.

From the above error output I conclude that the .htaccess DOES WORK as the error message states "foo.php" and not "foo.html".  However, the base URL seems to be replaced by the base Dir.  I suspect there is some SME magic at work here that I don't know about yet.

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When I change

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RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ $1.phpinto

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RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/$1.php [R]it however does work (hoorah!)

To test go here: http://coeleveld.com/imodrewrite

When change the .htaccess as the poster suggests, nothing changes for me. I am wondering if the way I tried to enable .htaccess was not proper? I wish that I understood enough of what was going on in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/92wordpress to add the Rewrite stuff directly in there instead of the .htaccess...
Not sure if any of this helps...
Ryan

[slords]

If you look in the error_log for httpd it will tell you why it is failing.  mod_rewrite from .htaccess requires both the AllowOverride=All and FollowSymLinks=enabled for the ibay in question.  Those are the only changes I've had to make in order for wordpress permalinks to work fine.

[haymann]

Well I started typing this as I was trying some different things, so instead of deleting everything I'll go through the process...

If you look in the error_log for httpd it will tell you why it is failing.

I see a bunch of errors like this:
File does not exist: /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/blah, blah, blah

Sounds like an issue w/ symlinks? I have wordpress installed in /opt/wordpress and have added symlinks to that location from my primary ibay. I did

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db accounts setprop Primary FollowSymLinks enabledback when I first setup the symlinks. I just did

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db accounts setprop Primary AllowOverride All
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/etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S86httpd-e-smith restart as I had not been using the .htaccess file before.

Then I looked and didn't see a symlink to the .htaccess file so I created it to /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/ by using this

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ln -s /opt/wordpress/.htaccess /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/and the syslink appeared and the permalinks work. I have no idea why the link to .htaccess wasn't there before... I did this

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ln -s /opt/wordpress/* /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html/ back when I first setup wordpress...

If I understand correctly, several folks here have suggested adding the .htaccess variables to the custom template instead of using .htaccess. I don't know how to do that with /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf/92wordpress though...

b-t-w I am using the "stock" .htaccess that came w/ the wordpress contrib, with no modifications like I quoted in an early post on this thread. This is the .htaccess that I am using

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

# END WordPress
Thanks Shad
Ryan