Apache mod_rewrite on Windows
3 Responses June 13th, 2008 | Ekerete.
I use Windows XP as my development platform and this is more of a note from me to me so I don’t have to Google for it next time.
I also use WampServer for Apache, MySQL and PHP and while I’ve only tested on that stack, I believe it to be generic enough.
- Open the Apache httpd.conf file and uncomment the line ‘LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so’ (remove the pound ‘#’ sign from in front of the line).
- If the lines ‘ClearModuleList’ and ‘AddModule mod_rewrite.c’ are in your httpd.conf file, make sure they are not commented out.
- Find the section with Document Root: DocumentRoot “C:/path/to/my/root”
- Modify the option for AllowOverride to look like this:
<Directory />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory> - Restart Apache
Apache mod-rewrite should now be working.
November 17th, 2008
But it’s not
February 23rd, 2009
@V: probably because you have a more specific directive farther down your httpd.conf.
I prefer it this way – and I believe Apache also suggests this – set the default to be very restrictive & then open up permissions for specific areas of the server:
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Options FollowSymLinks IncludesNoExec
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
February 23rd, 2009
oops, the codes got stripped by wordpress. Put these around the code blocks above.
<Directory />
…
</Directory>
<Directory “C:/wherever_you_keep_your_public_web_files”>
…
</Directory>