.htaccess not working in CentOS 5.5 x86_64

loganbest · 09-28-2010, 10:56 PM

I have checked and double checked the .htaccess and httpd.conf to make sure everything is correct and I'm sure it is. I have AllowOverride set to All in the httpd.conf, Apache sees and is reading the .htaccess because I get a 500 Error when I put garbage text in the file. I'm lost now.

bathory · 09-29-2010, 12:04 AM

Hi,

Could you tell us what you want to do and post the .htaccess that is not working

Regards

loganbest · 09-29-2010, 07:41 AM

I set up my site so that it can be put in any directory on the server, it just needs to be declared in the .htaccess

Code:

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
<Limit GET>
	order allow,deny
	allow from all
</Limit>
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

# uncomment this line to enable site wide gzip to increase load times
# may cause 500 server errors on servers running php in cgi mode
#---------------------------------------- GZIP BEGIN ------------------------------------#
#php_value output_handler ob_gzhandler
#---------------------------------------- GZIP END --------------------------------------#

#--------------------------------------- START SEO --------------------------------------#
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On


RewriteBase /beta


RewriteRule \.(css|jpe?g|gif|png|flv|swf)$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Main Menu Links #
RewriteRule ^videos/load/([^/]*)$ seemore.php?load=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^videos/load/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ seemore.php?load=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^audios/load/([^/]*)$ audio.php?load=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^audios/load/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ audio.php?load=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^audio/album/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ audio.php?album=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^audio/album/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ audio.php?album=$1&page=$3 [L]

RewriteRule ^blogs/load/([^/]*)$  blogs.php?load=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blogs/load/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ blogs.php?load=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^albums/load/([^/]*)$ albums.php?load=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^albums/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ albums.php?load=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^people_ajax people_ajax.php [L]
RewriteRule ^people/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ people.php?load=$1&page=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^people people.php [L]
RewriteRule ^upload-media upload.php [L]

RewriteRule ^groups$ groups.php [L]
RewriteRule ^search search.php [L]


# Action Links #
RewriteRule ^videos/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ play.php?vid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^audio/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ play_audio.php?audio=$1

RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)$ category_home.php?cid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^category/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ category_home.php?cid=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^subcategory/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ category_home.php?sub=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^subcategory/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ category_home.php?sub=$1&page=$3 [L]

RewriteRule ^genre/([^/]*)$ genre_home.php?cid=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^genre/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ genre_home.php?cid=$1&page=$2 [L]

RewriteRule ^view-album/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ album_view.php?album=$1
RewriteRule ^view-image/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ album_view.php?image=$1
RewriteRule ^read_blog/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ read_blog.php?id=$1 [L]

RewriteRule ^blogs/category/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ blogs.php?cat_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^blogs/category/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ blogs.php?cat_id=$1&page=$3 [L]

RewriteRule ^members/([^/]*)$  memberprofile.php?user=$1 [L]

#-------------------------------------------------------------#
# redirect directory browsing attempts
RewriteRule ^videos(.?)$ 	seemore.php [L]
RewriteRule ^audios(.?)$ 	audio.php 	[L]
RewriteRule ^blogs(.?)$ 	blogs.php 	[L]
RewriteRule ^members(.?)$	people	[R=301]
RewriteRule ^albums(.?)$ 	albums.php [L]

#-------------------------------------------------------------#

#--------------------------------------- END SEO ----------------------------------------#


#--------------------------------------- SOME SIMPLE BLOCKS -----------------------------#
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} SELECT(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} UNION(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [F,L]
#--------------------------------------- END BLOCKS -------------------------------------#

Options -Indexes

<IfModule mod_security.c>
	SecFilterEngine Off
	SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

bathory · 09-29-2010, 08:59 AM

Hi,

Sorry, but I cannot check such complex rewrite rules, but at least the simple ones (like those for redirect directory browsing attempts)

Quote:

RewriteRule ^videos(.?)$ seemore.php [L]
RewriteRule ^audios(.?)$ audio.php [L]
RewriteRule ^blogs(.?)$ blogs.php [L]
RewriteRule ^members(.?)$ people [R=301]
RewriteRule ^albums(.?)$ albums.php [L]

work as expected.
If they don't work for you, check if you set AllowOverride to none inside a vhost or something like that.
You can also enable RewriteLog and see what happens with the rules that are not working

Regards

loganbest · 09-29-2010, 09:22 AM

AllowOverride isn't in any of my vhost declarations, but the others I have set to All. It's not ever reading the RewriteBase, That's the biggest issue.

bathory · 09-29-2010, 11:24 AM

Edit .htaccess, leave just the 5 rules above and see if they work.
And of course enable rewrite logging and watch the rewrite.log when you visit a URL that should be redirected somewhere else.

loganbest · 09-29-2010, 11:43 AM

I just put this in my httpd.conf under the vhost for the IP for this domain and that file doesn't get created at all

RewriteLog "/home/whatego/public_html/rewritelog.log"
RewriteLogLevel 9

bathory · 09-29-2010, 11:51 AM

Could be that the apache user does not have write permission in that directory. Or since you're running Centos, it could be SELinux preventing the log file to be created.
Why don't you put the rewrite logs into the same directory as the other apache logs?

loganbest · 09-29-2010, 12:02 PM

Just tried /var/log/httpd/rewrite_log and still no go. And SELinux is disabled already.

bathory · 09-29-2010, 12:33 PM

Try this variation:

Code:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /var/log/httpd/rewrite_log
</IfModule>