URL Rewrite Setup - is .htaccess mandatory?
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Druppie
Joined: 2006-12-01
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Posted: Fri, 2006-12-01 21:11
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I'm trying to configure the mod_rewrite settings for url_rewrite module in Gallery2 and having trouble. It is giving me a 'warning' and asking me to 'Test mod_rewrite manually.' The trouble is, I don't have .htaccess files enabled by default as per the performance suggestions of the Apache Software people. I'm running my own machine. I have drupal setup in the multisite drupal configuration (common code base) and I do the mod_rewrite stuff for drupal in my extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file, not in .htaccess. Likewise with the non-drupal sites. What I would like to know is, can I get past this stumbling block in the setup if I am not using .htaccess files? Can I simply get the .htaccess info from somehwere so I can put it in my apache config file? |
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i suggest you enable .htaccess, let g2 write its mod_rewrite rules to .htaccess and then activate the URL rewrite module.
and once that's done you can copy the rewrite rules to your http.conf file and disable .htaccess support again.
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OK, so .htaccess is only required to write to once and then doesn't require writing further. Excellent.
A note to the gallery team, you may want to consider static .htaccess file if possible so we can just use an Apache include directive to stick that into our http-vhosts.conf file. Would make install and more importantly upgrade quite simple.
Thanks for the response valiant.
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you can file a feature request, see:
http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote_help