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PHP

Posted by Frederick Rogers
Frederick Rogers
25,142 Points

Introducing Rewrite Rules - Only shows directory listing

Hi, I'm using XAMPP with a VirtualHost, but i have tried in htdocs on localhost as well. The code in my .htaccess is:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^shirts/$ /shirts/shirts.php

Any reason why i'm just getting a directory listing with shirt.php, shirts.php ?

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Matthew Madden
Matthew Madden
5,753 Points
Matthew Madden
Matthew Madden
5,753 Points

Did you find a solution here? I'm seeing the same thing. I have the site files in a subfolder though, which I have tried in the rule without success. I've made sure that the rewrite module is turned on.

2 Answers

Frederick Rogers
Frederick Rogers
25,142 Points
Frederick Rogers
Frederick Rogers
25,142 Points

[delete]

Matthew Madden
Matthew Madden
5,753 Points
Matthew Madden
Matthew Madden
5,753 Points

I didn't have to activate the module, it was already on. I found out by clicking on the wamp icon in the system tray and going to Apache>Apache Modules and then scrolling to find the "rewrite_module" and making sure it was checked.

After messing with the code a bit more, I got this to work (remember I have everything in a subfolder) with the code below.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^shirts/$ shirts/shirts.php

My joy was short lived as now my redirects (next video) aren't working, but I think I'm okay skipping over that part for now.