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Elle H
Elle H

Reputation: 12217

mod_rewrite generating errors in log

On my site I have mod_rewrite rules to make the URLs more search engine friendly, and it all works fine on the frontend, but I'm getting errors in the error log like this

[Thu Jan 22 22:51:36 2009] [error] [client {IP ADDRESS HERE}] File does not exist: /{some rewritten directory}

The rules I'm using are rather simple, along the lines of

RewriteRule ^pages/(.*)_(.*).html$ page.php?id=$2

Is there a way to avoid these errors?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 539

Answers (2)

Gumbo
Gumbo

Reputation: 655129

MultiViews could cause this. If it is enabled, Apache tries to find a file similar to the requested URI before passing the request along to mod_rewrite. So try to disable it:

Options -MultiViews

Upvotes: 1

David Z
David Z

Reputation: 131550

I don't think those errors have anything to do with mod_rewrite, they're just saying that a file doesn't exist. Plain old 404 errors.

Incidentally, shouldn't rewrite patterns normally start with a slash? Like so:

RewriteRule ^/pages/(.*)_(.*).html$ /page.php?id=$2

Upvotes: 0

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