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Neil Middleton
Asked: 2010-02-18 07:07:41 +0800 CST

Getting mod_rewrite working on OS X Snow Leopard

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I have a OS X 10.6 install working, with Apache and PHP installed.

However, I cannot get mod_rewrite working. The contents of my httpd.conf is located here: http://pastie.org/828990

Does anyone know what vital thing I'm missing?

apache-2.2 mod-rewrite

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You also need to update /etc/apache2/users/[name].conf where name is your user name on your computer.

    If that file doesn't exist, create it. Then update it to allow mod_rewrite rules:

    <Directory "/Users/[name]/Sites/">
  Options Indexes MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>
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  2. Keith Norman's answer is correct. However, in my case - a cusual home server I use for hobbying/testing - I work directly off the "base" directory of the HTTP server, rather than a /~user directory. Consequently, I needed to alter the following line in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf:

    # AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
#   Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride All

    Previously it stated:

    AllowOverride None
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  3. You need "RewriteEngine = on" somewhere in your config, but I can't see it anywhere. This turns on RewriteRule, etc.

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