Did you try adding something like this?
RewriteBase /home/net/example/html/cake1.2/
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Todd M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok, so I read up some more on htaccess, so I went back to the original
> htaccess file that was in the cake_install_dir
> I should point out that I'm on a shared web server.
>
> I found some hints on debugging on the web so here are my
> modified .htaccess
> Mostly added the the [R] where the [L] was. This was for debugging so
> the url would be in the address bar when it failed
>
> in cake1.2 directory
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [R]
> RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [R]
> </IfModule>
>
> for apps directory
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine on
> RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [R]
> RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [R]
> </IfModule>
>
> for webroot directory
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^index.php
> RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [R]
> </IfModule>
>
>
> I did add another RewriteCond in the webroot .htaccess. I also
> modified the webroot's index.php to just an if-else looking at the url
> <?php
> if (isset($_GET['url'])){
> echo 'You are here and url = ' . $_GET['url'];
> }
> else
> {
> echo ' No url seen ';
> }
> echo 'BLAH';
> ?>
>
> So what I see works and doesn't work.
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/app/webroot/foo.html (just a hello
> world html)
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/app/webroot/index.php
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/app/webroot/index.php?url=posts
>
> What doesn't work is
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/posts
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/app/posts
> http://www.example.net/cake1.2/app/webroot/posts
>
> Looking at the last one http://www.example.com/cake1.2/app/webroot/posts.
> Because I put the [R] flags I see this in the address bar of the
> failed attempt page
>
> http://www.example.net/home/net/example/html/cake1.2/app/webroot/index.php?url=posts
>
> So I'm thinking the problem is because I'm on a shared web server. But
> thats just a hunch
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 31, 3:42 am, Anupom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Can you please share your modified .htaccess file that you have inside
> your
> > cake1.2 directory? I guess you have other .htaccess files inside your
> root
> > or html directory? Can you tell us what's written inside those as well?
> >
> > So my questions are if the .htaccess is necessary? good practice?
> >
> >
> >
> > .htaccess is necessary for pretty URLs and is certainly a good thing to
> have
> > :) You can though setup your cake to not to use .htaccess.
> >
> > Also please check if apache rewrite module is turned on in your web
> server.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Todd M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm finding problems with what I believe is with .htaccess in the
> > > cake_install_directory.
> >
> > > My current web server only allows the /html directory as a HTML root.
> > > To reduce complexity, I thought it would be good to start with
> > > untaring the CakePHP in that directory.
> >
> > > so my directory appears something like this
> >
> > > /html
> > > /cake1.2
> > > /app
> > > /cake
> > > /docs
> > > /vendors
> > > /foobar
> >
> > > I've noticed in the past if I wanted to look at an html file in foobar
> > > I had to usehttp://www.example.com/foobar
> >
> > > So I'm at step 4 in the documentation. I've confirmed with the web
> > > server that has AllowOverride is set to All.
> >
> > > It seems that I can't do
> > >http://www.example.com/cake1.2
> > >http://www.example.com/cake1.2/index.php
> > > or even
> > >http://www.example.com/cake1.2/foo.html
> >
> > > The foo.html is just a hello world html file.
> >
> > > What I found is if I remove the .htaccess file I get a nice CakePHP
> > > link telling my salt needs to be updated and that theres no connection
> > > to DB.
> >
> > > So I went farther in the tutorial, I successfully linked DB & changed
> > > salt word. Checked thehttp://www.example.com/cake1.2and everything
> > > looks fine, including DB is connected and no salt warning.
> >
> > > I did do a google search both here and the internet. I did find
> > > something about adding a Rewritebase line to all 3 .htaccess, but not
> > > sure if I did that correctly. When I changed that, it seemed to just
> > > go to a blank webpage. No errors or anything.
> >
> > > So my questions are if the .htaccess is necessary? good practice?
> >
> > --
> > Anupom Syamhttp://syamantics.com/
>
> >
>
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