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Posted by Josue Martinez
Josue Martinez
8,448 Points

Rewrite rules not working for me

I am using Mac OS X Mavericks to complete the PHP track. I am not using MAMP, so I am relying on the OS X Apache install and the settings in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

I wrote the rewrite rule as shown on the video and when I go to the shirts directory I am not redirected to the shirts.php page. I installed MAMP in a VM running Mountain Lion and the rewrite rule did not work there either. I even tried writing the rewrite rule directly in the httpd.cong file instead of .htaccess and that didn't work either. Can I get some help? I should also mention that I also tried changing my server document root to The Sites folder in my home directory. It made no difference.

1 Answer

Josue Martinez
Josue Martinez
8,448 Points
Josue Martinez
Josue Martinez
8,448 Points

I placed my .htaccess file in my shirts4mike website root rather than my server root, and that fixed the error. I should note that, form the beginning, I had placed the website for this project in its own directory instead of the server root in order to keep a a cleaner server directory.