Boblet Learned things and Japan diary, by Oli Studholme

The Dark Arts; .htaccess and mod_rewrite

By Oli
At 4:09 PM · Thursday, 13 November · 2003
To Unix · Weblogging

I’m starting to play with .htaccess and mod_rewrite — voodoo is scary stuff! With tremendous power comes the strong likelihood of stuffing everything up really badly. I wanted to enable RewriteLog to record what my mod_rewrite rules were doing, but I’ve discovered that this can only be implemented in the contexts server config & virtual host. As it isn’t allowed in .htaccess, I was killing my website with “500 Internal Server Error” messages when I tried to use it there. I guess I’ll have to ask my host if they can enable it somehow.

Here are the references I’ve been reading:

• Using .htaccess Files with Apache by Ken Coar
• Apache Tutorials; .htaccess files
• Comprehensive guide to .htaccess by Feyd
• Module mod_rewrite; URL Rewriting Engine, the Apache 1.3 manual reference
• Module mod_rewrite Tutorials (1-4) by Dirk Brockhausen (half way down)
• Apache 1.3 URL Rewriting Guide by Ralf S. Engelschall