Ubuntu – apache2 mod_rewrite enable, but not working

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I have enabled mod_rewrite on my server and confirmed it using phpinfo() and it shows as enabled.

I have the following in my httpd.conf file:

ServerName 172.16.1.114

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/test$ /index.php

I've tried the rewrite rule on another server and it works as expected. No errors are thrown to my apache error log and it restarts cleanly. When I try the page it 404s and doesn't load index.php

I'm sure this must be a simple problem, but I am at a loss on how to figure it out. Any help is appreciated.

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check in web directory the hidden file called .htaccess . If exist Open the file and check the settings. 404 page is for page do not exist. Check the apache error log also

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Probably the ProxyPass / directive you have in your config routes all requests to the Tomcat backend, bypassing all your mod_rewrite directives. You can try to remove the ProxyPass directive and use RewriteRule with the [P] flag after your other rewrites:

mod_rewrite: P|proxy

For the expire headers the situation is worse — in another similar question a solution was not found.

Option +FollowSymLinks would be needed for using mod_rewrite in .htaccess files; in your case it is not required, because you can put everything in the Apache config. Moving rules from config to .htaccess is pointless and can only make things slower. However, there is an important difference between .htaccess and the Apache config — in .htaccess patterns in RewriteRule are matched against relative filesystem paths (which never start with /), while in the VirtualHost context these patterns are matched against the URL path after the hostname, which always starts with /. Therefore at least one of your rules is incorrect:

RewriteRule ^content/(js|css)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ /content/$1/$2.$4

should be

RewriteRule ^/content/(js|css)/([a-z]+)-([0-9]+)\.(js|css)$ /content/$1/$2.$4

(note the additional slash in the beginning).

Apache mod_rewrite enabled, but not working

Making more tests, I get to strange results - added some DELETEME before RewriteEngine command - it fails with error, if I add anything afterwards, it ignores it, like if there would be no errrs!

Then I recall my experience with regex and text analysis, I wondered, if tampering with CRLF would do any good, and uncovering, what is current file new line symbols, uncovered that they where CR's. As I know, Apache is unix based software, I thought, it could misunderstood those, so I converted them to LF's and that was it, everything worked afterwards!

Note to future - make sure, with your editor (EditPlus, Notepad++, etc), that your .htaccess new line symbols are multiplatform compatible (CRLF), or at least unix compatible (LF), if working with apache!

PS: Sorry for dublicate (here and stackoverflow).

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