I had this strange phenomenon that mod_rewrite instructions in the .htaccess file worked online on my ISPs server, but not on my local Windows machine that also has an Apache server running on it.<\/p>\n
I kept getting 404 errors: page not found.<\/p>\n
Which is a bit annoying: I’ve got drupal, joomla and other software running on my local server, but none of them could use ‘clean URLs,’ which is what I want to use.<\/p>\n
It turns out that the default configuration of Apache on windows is to NOT allow .htaccess to be used.<\/p>\n
So the problem wasn’t that the mod_rewrite didn’t work. The real problem was that the .htaccess file was just ignored.<\/p>\n
The best solution for that is to modify your httpd.conf file. (Stop the Apache service before you modify it. Start it again when completed).<\/p>\n
If you’ve installed, e.g, drupal in a directory “c:\\websites\\drupal” and you want to use mod_rewrite for clean URLs, then you’d have to add the following lines to the httpd.conf file:<\/p>\n
<Directory “C:\/websites\/drupal\/”>
\nAllowOverride All
\nOrder allow,deny
\nAllow from all
\n<\/Directory><\/p>\n
You have to do this for each directory \/ folder you want to use .htaccess in.<\/p>\n
The – far less secure- alternative is to change the default settings of your Apache and by default allow .htaccess to be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had this strange phenomenon that mod_rewrite instructions in the .htaccess file worked online on my ISPs server, but not on my local Windows machine that also has an Apache server running on it. I kept getting 404 errors: page not found. Which is a bit annoying: I’ve got drupal, joomla and other software running … Continue reading Apache mod_rewrite doesn’t seem to work in Windows<\/span>