help with mod_rewrite.

[alexv55]

I am posting it here after spending over a day and reading apache and docs on the web.

I am trying to test apache’s rewrite rules directive on. I have sub directory under public_html called wm, which contains test.php and a very simple .htaccess files; nothing fancy.

# start .htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wm(/)?$ test.php [NC,L]

# end .htaccess

// start test.php
<?php
echo ‘hello world’;
?>
// end test.php

I am expecting it to execute test.php and display ‘hello world’ when I type www.mydomain.co/wm. Instead, I get internet server error message. Also, when I try Business profile for mydomain.co provided by Network Solutions, I still get internal server error.

I can’t quite put my finger on what’s missing.

Alex

[LinuxTechie]

Hi Alex.

It may be an issue with permission or ownership. Please posy your apache error logs which can be found with the help of the command tail -f /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log

[raghunath]

You can try this
------------------------------------------------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} ^domainname.com/$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} ^www.domainname.com/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domainname.com/test.php/$1 [r=301,nc]
------------------------------------------------------------

OR

# Redirect old file path to new file path
RewriteEngine On
Redirect /olddirectory/oldfile.html http://domainame.com/newdirectory/newfile.html