Apache Rewrite Rules

[gouxim]

Fellow coders,

I was asked about the Rewrite Rules so here's some information about it. Note: it's a fairly advanced ManiaLib topic.

First you have to activate Rewrite Rules in ManiaLib config

If you use INI config file:

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application.useRewriteRules = true

If you use app.php config file:

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$application->useRewriteRules = true;

Then you have to enable Rewrite Rules on you webserver.

Basically you need to redirect everything in the path info after index.php. Here are the rewrite rules for Apache:

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

Let's break it up:

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RewriteEngine On

=> Activates module

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RewriteBase /

=> Default path after domain name

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

=> Don't redirect for existing files

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

=> Don't redirect for existing folders

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RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/media

=> Don't redirect for /media folder

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RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

=> Redirect everything else to index.php/....


Hope it helps

[Jojo_44]

Ahh nice Big thanks

regards, Jojo

[m4rcel]

I want to add, that you have to remove the comments from the end of the lines to make this htaccess file actually work.

I wanted to use these rules for my own project, but the file always generated 500 errors due to these comments. Hard to find, if you only barely know how the htaccess files works ^^

[gouxim]

Thx, I've updated the post accordingly.