Hi all: I'm trying to install a CakePHP 2.0 app on a shared hosting account with OVH, and I'm having a really hard time getting mod_rewrite to work. After searching this group, I've found several people with the same problem and talking about OVH's "exotic" Apache setup, but without any specific details about how to set things up so that they work, so I'm writing to see if anybody can give me a hand. Here are my details:
1) I have a website with the web root at 'www/' (which is OVH's standard setup), and I've created a subdomain, which is what I want my Cake app to serve. The subdomain's web root points at 'www/ app_paintball/'; within this folder, I have the default CakePHP tree, with no changes (i.e., the 'webroot/' folder is within the 'app/' folder). 2) I've read the OVH guide about mod_rewrite (http://help.ovh.co.uk/ HtaccessModRewrite), and I've changed my .htaccess files accordingly. For example, the one at CakePHP's root is now like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^$ /app/webroot/ [L] RewriteRule (.*) /app/webroot/$1 [L] </IfModule> And the one inside /app/webroot/ is now like this: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [QSA,L] </IfModule> 3) The problem I'm having is that, for example, if I try to access a URL like http://probando.mydomainname.com/Videos/ver, Cake responds with an error saying "Error: VerController could not be found." (There IS a "VideosController.php", and within it there IS an action called "ver"; in my local testing setup it all works perfectly). My impression is that there's something in mod_rewrite that isn't working correctly, and thus the Cake engine thinks that "ver" is the name of the controller, when it's the action. Things I've tried: -Leave the .htaccess files as they came originally with CakePHP, but just adding a "RewriteBase: /" before the rules. -Point the subdomain's web root to '/www/app_paintball/app/webroot', i.e., directly to the CakePHP's webroot. -I also put a debug PHP script in the subdomain, to find out about Apache's variables, and it says the following: DOCUMENT_ROOT = /homez.443/[my_username]/www/app_paintball SCRIPT_FILENAME = /homez.443/[my_username]/www/app_paintball/ [my_debugscriptname].php Disclaimer: I just started learning CakePHP a week ago, and my mod_rewrite knowledge has never been too great (and it's been years since I had to touch it). I don't really know what else to do. Can anyone help? Paulo. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
