[thelist] Apache ReWrite

[James Mclean]

After a bit further searching of the Apache docs,  it was the Options
MultiViews option  that needed to be turned on


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Mclean" <james at adam.com.au>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 5:39 PM
Subject: [thelist] Apache ReWrite


> I am building a site in PHP, and using a method to make the site search
> engine friendly. I have built sites based on this code on a production
> Cobalt server, but on my debian box running the latest 1.3 apache built
from
> source, it does not allow me to call a file called index.php, as index.
(ie
> www.gamingsa.com/index/home/ or www.gamingsa.com/index/ )
>
> I am pretty sure that the cobalt server uses a rewrite rule to achieve
this,
> and not a .htaccess as it is global.
>
> this is want i have "borrowed" from that server, but this does not work...
>
>     RewriteEngine on
>     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx(:80)?$
>     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}                !^www2.website.com(:80)?$
>     RewriteRule ^/(.*)                      http://www2.website.com/$1
[L,R]
>     RewriteOptions inherit
>
> (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip, i have removed it :), website.com is not the
> url, changed also :) )
>
> it is inside a virtualhost directive.
>
> i do not want to use files wirth no extension, as described in many how
> to's.
>
> Any Ideas people?
>
> Cheers
>
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