I changed that to
RewriteEngine On
Option +FollowSymLinks

Support may not know about this, but it seems one
cannot use Options All on that host

Here's my file(it hides html, png, jpg, and specific php extensions):

Options FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^example(.*) example.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.jpg -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.jpg
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.png -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.png

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

I wanted to remove my file extensions using:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [L]

All logic should state that it should work! I've been playing around and discovered that:

RewriteRule ^folder/page$ /folder/page.php [L]

will not work!!! But if I add any character onto the end of page such as a 'd' or 's' it works!

RewriteRule ^folder/paged$ /folder/page.php [L]

Finally, in order to make it work Options +FollowSymLinks must be changed to Options -MultiViews. Anything else and it will not work.

Gman

thank you Spell

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My Joomla site is hosted on GoDaddy. I want the homepage to be http://www.mypage.com/index.html, a portal page which will display several links, one of which will go to http://www.mypage.com/index.php

The action of putting "Directoryindex index.html index.php" only makes the site go to index.html when http://www.mypage.com OR http://www.mypage.com/index.php is clicked or put into the browser.

Any ideas?

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
Options -MultiViews

and things started working immediately for me : )

Thanks for the page tom, it shows up first at google for mod_rewrite and godaddy.com

PS; My .htaccess

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

I hope this note finds you well. Back in September, you were kind enough to help me through some trouble I was having with a .htaccess file on my GoDaddy hosting servers. We sorted through this issue, but we are now experiencing some more problems when trying to launch the site with some new enhancements. I've pasted the text from our .htaccess file below. My developer tells me we need to enable the mod_rewrite and set as LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so in httpd.conf file. I thought GoDaddy set the mod_rewrite by default? Anyways, can you take a look at the .htaccess below and let me know if you see any issues? Thanks a million in advance.

Jeff

---------------BEGIN .HTACCESS

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php .html
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4 .html

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName http://www.wine-hotels.com

# Enable rewrite engine

RewriteEngine On

RewriteRule ^index\.html web/index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/index\.html web/home.php?rname=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/hotels/index\.html web/list.php?rname=$1&catid=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/restaurants/index\.html web/list.php?rname=$1&catid=2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/wineries/index\.html web/list.php?rname=$1&catid=3 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/activities/index\.html web/list.php?rname=$1&catid=4 [L]

#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/hotels/map/(.*)\.html web/map.php?rname=$1&catid=1&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/restaurants/map/(.+?)\.html web/map.php?rname=$1&catid=2&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/wineries/map/(.+?)\.html web/map.php?rname=$1&catid=3&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/activities/map/(.+?)\.html web/map.php?rname=$1&catid=4&name=$2 [L]

#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/hotels/phototour/(.*)\.html web/phototour.php?rname=$1&catid=1&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/restaurants/phototour/(.+?)\.html web/phototour.php?rname=$1&catid=2&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/wineries/phototour/(.+?)\.html web/phototour.php?rname=$1&catid=3&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/activities/phototour/(.+?)\.html web/phototour.php?rname=$1&catid=4&name=$2 [L]

#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/hotels/(.+?)\.html web/detail.php?rname=$1&catid=1&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/restaurants/(.+?)\.html web/detail.php?rname=$1&catid=2&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/wineries/(.+?)\.html web/detail.php?rname=$1&catid=3&name=$2 [L]
#RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/activities/(.+?)\.html web/detail.php?rname=$1&catid=4&name=$2 [L]

We've updated the .htaccess to instruct the support for ver 5 and still no joy. Our current version of .htaccess includes the following:

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all

order deny,allow
deny from all

AuthName http://www.wine-hotels.com
AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

AddHandler server-parsed .php .html

# Enable rewrite engine

RewriteEngine On

Anybody have any ideas how to get this to work in GoDaddy?

Thanks in advance.

here is my .htaccess file's contents

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
Options -MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^hindupedia/eng/(.*)$ en/index.php?title=$1 [PT,L,QSA]

Then, a few minutes ago, I tried it again, but this time I made one change and voila, the whole thing WORKED. Here's what I did:

Each time I've made a modification to the ".htaccess" file I did it in a certain way that seems to have been the problem. To elaborate: I copied it over to my hard drive using Filezilla, then changed the name to "htaccess.txt". Then, in Dreamweaver, I've gone into the file and made whatever change. Then, back in Filezilla, I uploaded the new "htaccess.txt" file onto the website, THEN lastly, I changed the name back to ".htaccess". That seems to have been the problem. This never worked.

A few minutes ago, by a fluke, I instead changed the name BEFORE I uploaded the file onto the website. And that worked. Everything worked immediately. On two different websites.

I'm basically a newbie, so any old-timers are probably reading this and groaning... I hope not. But just in case, this is what seemed to work, finally, for me.

Take away: Try this: to change the name of "htaccess.txt", upload the file using Filezilla onto your hard drive, then change the name of the file while it's on your hard drive (you can do this while still in Filezilla). Then upload the newly renamed file ".htaccess" back onto the server. Go into your Global Config and turn on SEF and mod_rewrite and see if it works. Good luck!

I noticed that although the rewrite rule didn't do as expected on:
http://www.myvirtualdomain.com/

it actually did work on:
http://mymastergodaddydomain.com/myvirtualdomainpath/

So I knew i was a path related problem. My solution was to change:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
to:
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

(notice the extra / to distinguish the path correctly)

This stopped it from working in my 2nd example (as expected) but made it work correctly for where it mattered on:

http://www.myvirtualdomain.com/

Alternatively, it was discovered that I could add:
RewriteBase /
and leave the initial RewriteRule

In any event the secret to making it work is to experiment.

I've also noticed that sometimes the change takes affect immediately and on other occassions I've had to wait several minutes.

RewriteEngine on
Options -MultiViews FollowSymLinks
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mikeskramstad\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mikeskramstad.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Options -MultiViews

I wrote a little more about it on my bog:
http://www.btjones.com/2007/12/09/godaddy-mod_rewrite-problem-fix/

Even though the strikethroughs indicate the delay issue was fixed, it currently isn't. I waited 5 minutes, and poof! Worked like it's supposed to.

So, hopefully this little addition will let other poor souls know to wait just a bit and stop screaming at your poor htaccess file.

Jim
http://www.findmytee.com

Their modifications, such as grabbing PHP out in the early stages of the request, make debugging .htaccess behaviour fairly tricky, so it's difficult to guess what's going to happen.

Plus, the fact that rewrite rules can be fairly tricky on their own!

redirectmatch 301 ^/test/(.*)$ /test.php

Email me the full htaccess file info dave dot allen (at symbol) shaw dot ca

http://www.test.com/test/abc to

http://www.test.com/test.php?param=abc

On my hosting directory my site is not hosted on root, but it is hosted at in a directory in root say xyz

So when I write in my .htaccess-

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test/(.*) test.php?param=$1

now when I use your method and write url -
http://www.test.com/test/abc

it gave 404 error -
The requested URL /xyz/test.php was not found on this server.

How should I change the .htaccess file ?

First you create a page:
http://whateverdomain.com/com/content.php?page=events&id=101
where the page is made up of content dynamically taken from a database using the two parameters passed in the URL (page and id)

Set your .htaccess file to show

redirectmatch 301 ^/content/(.*)$ /content.php

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^content/(.*) /content.php?var=$1

I used the info above that

"Requests for PHP files (eg. http://gidden.net/tom/item.php) are intercepted well before .htaccess (and definitely mod_rewrite) activate. So, mod_rewrite will not work on URLs for PHP files.

# However, it will allow redirections to PHP files."

So I made up a fake, non php file and url containing the two parameters that I needed i.e.

http://whateverdomain.com/content/events/101/index.asp

which will then redirect to:

http://whateverdomain.com/content.php?var=events/101/index.asp

A little php on the content.php:

$data = explode("/",$_GET['var']);
$page = $data[0];
$id = $data[1];

And everything works beautifully. Very awkward, but it works.

Hope this helps!

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^test/(.*) test.php?param=$1

in /.htaccess

I have to redirect a url on godaddy web hosting serer. but it is not happening.

http://www.test.com/test/abc then it should be changed into

http://www.test.com/test.php?param=abc

Reply

Thanks

I was facing this trouble from last few weeks and was unable to configure it out. but now mod_rewrite on godaddy works perfect for me.