Tomek, I have not been able to locate the step by step users manual for web hosting for less web savvy people. Kindly direct me so that I can search there. Regards, ashok
On 10/7/07, Tomek Lorek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi there! > I'm having problems setting up a mod_rewrite on Apache 2.2.3. I have > an address like this: http://127.0.0.1/~tomek/somesite/register.php > and it works ok. I've got a /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/.htaccess > file which contains: > RewriteEngine On > RewriteRule ^(.+)\.html$ $1.php [L] > The rule in this special example is simple (my target one is much more > complicated but that's not the problem): it should substiture html > with php and that's all. But when requesting this uri: > http://127.0.0.1/~tomek/somesite/register.html (HTML instead of PHP) I > get this 404 error: "The requested URL /home/tomek/public_html/ > somesite/register.php was not found on this server." > So mod_rewrite successfully replaced html with php but Apache > converted this uri to the filesystem path, don't know why. By the way > the file do exists on the filesystem. > > I've been searching a lot and one of the tips may be this from > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html: > "Home directory expansion > When the substitution string begins with a string resembling "/ > ~user" (via explicit text or backreferences), mod_rewrite performs > home directory expansion independent of the presence or configuration > of mod_userdir. > This expansion does not occur when the PT flag is used on the > RewriteRule directive." > > Unfortunately it does not work, but maybe it's not what my problem is. > Mine substitution string does not contain ~user, it actually is > "register.html". > > Does anybody has any idea how to solve this problem? I have to be able > to use mod_rewrite with url containing ~user. What is this filesystem > conversion from? > > And this is what RewriteLog says, it looks good to me: > > teel127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2007:23:05:43 +0200] [127.0.0.1/sid#819e6a8] > [rid#839b8c8/initial] (3) [perdir /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/] > strip per-dir prefix: /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/register.html > -> register.html > 127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2007:23:05:43 +0200] [127.0.0.1/sid#819e6a8] > [rid#839b8c8/initial] (3) [perdir /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/] > applying pattern '(.+)\.html$' to uri 'register.html' > 127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2007:23:05:43 +0200] [127.0.0.1/sid#819e6a8] > [rid#839b8c8/initial] (2) [perdir /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/] > rewrite 'register.html' -> 'register.php' > 127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2007:23:05:43 +0200] [127.0.0.1/sid#819e6a8] > [rid#839b8c8/initial] (3) [perdir /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/] > add per-dir prefix: register.php -> /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/ > register.php > 127.0.0.1 - - [06/Oct/2007:23:05:43 +0200] [127.0.0.1/sid#819e6a8] > [rid#839b8c8/initial] (1) [perdir /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/] > internal redirect with /home/tomek/public_html/somesite/register.php > [INTERNAL REDIRECT] > > Best regards, > teel > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
