Re: Having a little trouble with url rewriting on production server --psybear

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:24 AM, psybear83 <psybear83@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everybody
>
> I never had to deploy a CakePHP app to a production server before, and
> now I'm a bit stuck.
>
> While my app works like a snap on my development machine, URL
> rewriting doesn't seem to work on the production server. This means:
> everything works fine as long as I access the app with myapp?
> url=controller/action, but myapp/controller/action doesn't work.
>
> First I remarked that there's no .htaccess file in htdocs. Maybe I
> have forgotten to check it into my Subversion (and didn't notice it
> because locally i'm using virtual hosts that point right to the app/
> webroot folder)? So I copied it from another live app, and it has the
> following content:
>
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
>   RewriteEngine on
>   RewriteRule    ^$ app/webroot/    [L]
>   RewriteRule    (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
> </IfModule>
>
> But sadly now I always get a 403 forbidden mesage! What could be the
> problem here?

The server probably either does not allow htaccess (AllowOverride
None) or mod_rewrite isn't enabled. If you can edit the virtual host
config, add the content of the htaccess file there. Your server will
be speedier if it doesn't have to deal with htaccess, in any case.

DocumentRoot /var/www/vhosts/your_site/app/webroot

<Directory "/var/www/vhosts/your_site/app/webroot">
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
</Directory>

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