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PHP Enhancing a Simple PHP Application Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules Introducing Rewrite Rules

Posted by nathon reed
nathon reed
8,521 Points

I added the .htaccess file and unable to get the rewrite rule to work. Everytime I add the .htaccess I get an error

I am using a windows machine and I have XAMPP running Apache Server. I can go to localhost and see my listing. I click on the site I am working on and no porblems. I am trying to add rewrite rules to my php code. when I add the .htaccess file the page I am wokring on I get an error page error code 404 Object not found. not sure if it is that for some reason my apache server dose not have rewrite rules turned on and I do not know how to turn them on. Any Help would be great thank you

3 Answers

Muhammad Mohsen
Muhammad Mohsen
Courses Plus Student 10,843 Points

Hi Nathon,

try to apply these steps

http://milesj.me/blog/read/mod_rewrite-xampp-windows

nathon reed
nathon reed
8,521 Points
nathon reed
nathon reed
8,521 Points

Thank You Muhammad Mohsen, I followed the blog looks like everything was setup up the way it was suppose to be besides had to change on override to ALL. I still am having the same issue. Here is the code in my .htaccess file maybe I did something wrong in that. thank you again.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php
Derek Dawes
Derek Dawes
4,944 Points
Derek Dawes
Derek Dawes
4,944 Points

As mentioned in another answer I had to do all these steps to get it to work on WAMP

(http://milesj.me/blog/read/mod_rewrite-xampp-windows)

<p>I followed the link above and removed the "#" from LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so in the httpd.conf file.</p> I also did a search in the document and changed all "override all's" If that confuses you just go to the link above it explains it.

Finally and not sure if its all I had to do but I had to remove the "/" before /shirts/shirts.php It now loads.

I also added a command in the .htaccess file that was mentioned in another answer as well

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /shirts4mike_local/
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ shirts/shirts.php
kefei ou
kefei ou
4,027 Points

My problem sovlved by removing the "/" as you mentioned, thanks

juras
juras
7,778 Points

Solved as well just by removing "/" before shirts/shirt.php

I had to enable rewrite_module on WAMP Apache first though