To first force HTTPS, you must check the correct environment variable %{HTTPS} off, but your rule above then prepends the www. Since you have a second rule to enforce www., don’t use it in the first rule. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off # First rewrite to HTTPS: # Don’t put www. here. If it is … Read more
In order to use mod_rewrite you can type the following command in the terminal: sudo a2enmod rewrite Restart apache2 after sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or sudo service apache2 restart or as per new unified System Control Way sudo systemctl restart apache2 Then, if you’d like, you can use the following .htaccess file. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On … Read more
Here are a few additional tips on testing rules that may ease the debugging for users on shared hosting 1. Use a Fake-user agent When testing a new rule, add a condition to only execute it with a fake user-agent that you will use for your requests. This way it will not affect anyone else … Read more
Gumbo’s answer in the Stack Overflow question How to hide the .html extension with Apache mod_rewrite should work fine. Re 1) Change the .html to .php Re a.) Yup, that’s possible, just add #tab to the URL. Re b.) That’s possible using QSA (Query String Append), see below. This should also work in a sub-directory … Read more
How to create a Virtual Host in WampServer WAMPServer 3 has made this process much easier! You can do almost everything from a utility provided as part of WAMPServer. Create a folder inside to contain your project.site. This can be under the C:\wamp\www\ directory or in a completely seperate folder like C:\websites. Create a folder … Read more
To understand what mod_rewrite does you first need to understand how a web server works. A web server responds to HTTP requests. An HTTP request at its most basic level looks like this: GET /foo/bar.html HTTP/1.1 This is the simple request of a browser to a web server requesting the URL /foo/bar.html from it. It … Read more
Data Storage: Specify the utf8mb4 character set on all tables and text columns in your database. This makes MySQL physically store and retrieve values encoded natively in UTF-8. Note that MySQL will implicitly use utf8mb4 encoding if a utf8mb4_* collation is specified (without any explicit character set). In older versions of MySQL (< 5.5.3), you’ll … Read more
I have a look into my glass spehre, but I bet you have to activate the mod_rewrite-Modul of Apache2.