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david t-g
david t-g

Reputation: 65

How can I have rewrite rules with aliases?

I apologize in advance if this is too long. I figure more detail is better than less and hope I'm not being horribly rambling :-)

I use WAMP on my laptop for local dev, and I have various c:/wamp/alias/* files each pointing to a project working directory. I've had some excellent mod_rewrite help and gotten

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?ih(\/.*)?$ $1index.php$2 [L,QSA]

to work to change localhost/.../ih/sub/dir to localhost/.../index.php/sub/dir for URLs that are both SEO-friendly and short. [I haven't gone on to do this in prod but I suspect it will work just as well.] However, to get it all together I had to change my doc root from c:/wamp/www/ to c:/, which I'd really rather not do just in case my Apache gets hacked and otherwise because it's a kludge.

My test alias file looks like

Alias /testme "c:/var/tmp/wamp-testme/"
<Directory "c:/var/tmp/wamp-testme/">
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride all
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.*\/)?ih(\/.*)?$ $1index.php$2 [L,QSA]
</Directory>

and the error I get when trying to load http://localhost/testme/rewrites/ih/sub/path is

[Thu Jun 30 06:46:13 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]
  File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/var

with a matching

Not Found
The requested URL /var/tmp/wamp-testme/rewrites/index.php/sub/path
  was not found on this server.

in the browser. Sure enough, the same config in my c:/wamp/alias/flying.conf file that points to the c:/data/flying/ directory throws File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/data in the error log file, and so on.

Sooooo... How can I have a rewrite rule that transcends aliases without having my doc root at my machine root dir?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4690

Answers (1)

Femi
Femi

Reputation: 64700

Odd: try adding a PT flag to the rewrite rule: this forces the re-written URL to be sent back to the URL mapping engine.

EDIT: try setting the RewriteBase on the Directory.

Upvotes: 7

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