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salmane

I had to change webhost. the new configuration is similar to the one that was working before. except in the new server, i can only view the index page of the site. Any other page gives me a 404 error. ( not from fuel but from the server) this is what my .htaccess file looks like :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteCond %&#123;REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %&#123;REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L]
</IfModule>

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
thanks u

Rcky

In which folder is your .htaccess?

salmane

Michael Rüfenacht wrote on Wednesday 10th of August 2011:

In which folder is your .htaccess?

in the public folder

Rcky

Try to move it a level up (same folder as your public is in) and add something like:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine on

 RewriteBase /public

 RewriteRule ^(/)?$ index.php/$1 [L]

 RewriteCond %&#123;REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %&#123;REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

If your not in the root folder, you have to change the RewriteBase accordingly.

salmane

I must admit i am no expert in .htaccess files. Anyway you could tell me how to adjust it to point to the public_html folder ? if it is set one level higher?

Rcky

Ah sorry, my bad! How does your server document structure look like actually (similar to this one)? If it does you dont have to move the .htaccess.

- fuel/
- mail/
- public_ftp/
- public_html/
 -- index.php
 -- assets/
 -- .htaccess
- www/

So, could it be that your Hoster does not support mod_rewrite? You can test that by routing to another file (create yourtestfile.php in the public folder f.e. with a simple echo in it), and then change the .htaccess to:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ yourtestfile.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

If mod_rewrite works, yourtestfile.php will be called instead the index.php

salmane

Hi there,
thank you so much for the help so far.
I tried the mod_rewrite test. I still get my index.php file to show still which tells me your suspicion is right and that the host does not support mod_rewrite.
guess i am back to square one in my search for a decent webhost.
thanks again for your help

Rcky

You're welcome.
You could try to comment out the (im not totally shure about that!): #RewriteBase / in the testfile.

salmane

I think I found the problem. Mod_rewrite requires a fully qualified domain name. while a server i tested before offered a temp url that looked like a fully qualified domain name. the latest company I tested, had only a regular test url with ~/username at the end which is not a fully qualified domain name.
A localhost works also for mod_rewrite by the way.
moral of the story, you need a Fully qualified domain name (one that looks like somehost.example.com. ) in order to run or test your site on a server
I hope this saves someone time.

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