htaccess not working

Question

Im starting with Zend Framework, and on their site there is this:

http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.html#zend.controller.quickstart.go.rewrite

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

How to put that to good use? What should i do to get this to work? Now when i load my site i get 500 internal server error... :)

Should i change REQUEST_FILENAME to something else?

Im still very new to htaccess and mod_rewrite...

Im using WAMPSERVER...

Answer 1

Apparently I overlooked the most obvious answer: I just changed this:

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

to this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

in the httpd.conf file. Everything works now.

Answer 2

internal server error means there is an error in your .htaccess

Try to remove it, just to see if the problem disapear. In this case add your lines in order to find which is defective

Answer 3

There are many ways to get Error 500 with .httaccess. Maybe you have set wrong permissions on the file or you have a typo in it.

Answer 4

So I think I see what your getting at. Your basically trying to rewrite any requests that don't exist to another page. Rather than what your doing, I would try this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [NC,L]

This will only match if the file/directory/link does not exist and rewrite it to point at the index page.

Answer 5

You should check your server error logs for details. For Apache this is usually %APACHE_DIR%\logs\error.log (on Windows) or /var/logs/apache/error.log on Linux.

Answer 6

I have added following redirect rule, the redirect works fine but the URL in the address bar doesnot print or looks as required.

RewriteRule ^(a-z).htm http:/localhost/info/mystuff.php?tech=$1 [L]

I want my URL to be like http://localhost/info/w3calculator

but it prints as http:/localhost/info/mystuff.php?tech=w3calculator

I think this is server issue how do I fix it?