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lampej
lampej

Reputation: 258

mod_rewrite PHP $_GET empty

I have the following .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule api/(.*)$ api.php?m=$1 [QSA,NC,L]
</IfModule>

The URL rewriting works great. I can go to http://myserver.com/api/example and it will behave as if I went to http://myserver.com/api.php?m=example. The problem is that the PHP $_REQUEST and $_GET variables are empty. Shouldn't I still be able to get the value of $_REQUEST['m']?

After some googling, I found a suggestion to disable MultiViews. If I add Options -MultiViews, I get a 404 error.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 852

Answers (1)

Jon Lin
Jon Lin

Reputation: 143886

Sounds like you don't have mod_rewrite enabled. Since it's not enabled, the IfModule container is ignored. See: How to enable mod_rewrite for Apache 2.2

You must turn off Multiviews in order for this to work, otherwise mod_negotiation is activated and will automatically map /api/ to /api.php without giving mod_rewrite a chance to do anything. So you need the line:

Options -MultiViews

If you can't enable mod_rewrite, you could alternatively change your api.php script so that it looks in the PATH_INFO variable:

$_SERVER['PATH_INFO']

to get the "example" part.

Upvotes: 2

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