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I'm trying to enable mod_rewrite on a XAMPP 5.6.3 installation. I've been following these guides:

• http://www.leonardaustin.com/blog/technical/enable-mod_rewrite-in-xampp/


• http://www.lancelhoff.com/enabling-htaccess-in-apache-on-windows/


• https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/47526/enable-url-rewriting-mod-rewrite-using-htaccess-files-in-sites-on-lion

...and a bunch of other I managed to google up. Unfortunately, to no avail.

I have a project that was developed under Linux, working perfectly there, having .htaccess file inside:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

I have tried:

1. Making sure that the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is not commented in httpd.conf.


2. Replacing AllowOverride none with AllowOverride all in httpd.conf (2 or 3 occurrences).


3. Adding AllowOverride all directives in all <Directory> sections I have added to httpd-vhosts.conf when the above didn't work, just in case.


4. Restarting after changes #2 and #3.

I'm trying to access URLs in the directory with .htaccess file, but none of them presumably get rewritten probably, and give 404. Access to the file that they should be rewritten to is possible, and gives no errors. Accessing .htaccess itself gives 403.

I also tried adding:

RewriteLog "C:/XAMPP/apache/logs/rewrite.log"

RewriteLogLevel 3

...both to httpd.conf and httpd-vhosts.conf, sometimes without RewriteLog, but, when I do that, Apache refuses to start - sometimes it spits generic error messages into XAMPP console, sometimes it just hangs. It doesn't write anything at error.log though. So, no mod_rewrite debug output. phpinfo(), however, shows that the loaded modules are:

core mod_win32 mpm_winnt http_core mod_so mod_access_compat mod_actions mod_alias mod_allowmethods mod_asis mod_auth_basic mod_authn_core mod_authn_file mod_authz_core mod_authz_groupfile mod_authz_host mod_authz_user mod_autoindex mod_cgi mod_dav_lock mod_dir mod_env mod_headers mod_include mod_info mod_isapi mod_log_config mod_cache_disk mod_mime mod_negotiation mod_proxy mod_proxy_ajp mod_rewrite mod_setenvif mod_socache_shmcb mod_ssl mod_status mod_version mod_php5

So it should be in more or less working order.

This is driving me mad. Please help.

Below are the full contents of anything that looks remotely useful:

httpd.conf:

ServerRoot "C:/XAMPP/apache"





Listen 80



LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so

LoadModule actions_module modules/mod_actions.so

LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so

LoadModule allowmethods_module modules/mod_allowmethods.so

LoadModule asis_module modules/mod_asis.so

LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so

LoadModule authn_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so

LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so

LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so

LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so

LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so

LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so

LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so

LoadModule cgi_module modules/mod_cgi.so

LoadModule dav_lock_module modules/mod_dav_lock.so

LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so

LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so

LoadModule info_module modules/mod_info.so

LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so

LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so

LoadModule cache_disk_module modules/mod_cache_disk.so

LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so

LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so

LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so

LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so

LoadModule socache_shmcb_module modules/mod_socache_shmcb.so

LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so

LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so

LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so



<IfModule unixd_module>

User daemon

Group daemon



</IfModule>





ServerAdmin postmaster@localhost



ServerName localhost:80



<Directory />

    AllowOverride all

    Require all denied

</Directory>





DocumentRoot "C:/XAMPP/htdocs"

<Directory "C:/XAMPP/htdocs">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI



    AllowOverride All



    Require all granted

</Directory>



<IfModule dir_module>

    DirectoryIndex index.php index.pl index.cgi index.asp index.shtml index.html index.htm 

                   default.php default.pl default.cgi default.asp default.shtml default.html default.htm 

                   home.php home.pl home.cgi home.asp home.shtml home.html home.htm

</IfModule>



<Files ".ht*">

    Require all denied

</Files>



ErrorLog "logs/error.log"



LogLevel warn



<IfModule log_config_module>

    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i"" combined

    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b" common



    <IfModule logio_module>

      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t "%r" %>s %b "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i" %I %O" combinedio

    </IfModule>





    CustomLog "logs/access.log" combined

</IfModule>



<IfModule alias_module>





    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/XAMPP/cgi-bin/"



</IfModule>



<IfModule cgid_module>

</IfModule>



<Directory "C:/XAMPP/cgi-bin">

    AllowOverride All

    Options None

    Require all granted

</Directory>



<IfModule mime_module>

    TypesConfig conf/mime.types



    AddType application/x-compress .Z

    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz



    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl .asp





    AddType text/html .shtml

    AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml

</IfModule>



<IfModule mime_magic_module>

    MIMEMagicFile "conf/magic"

</IfModule>













Include conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-info.conf



Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf







Include "conf/extra/httpd-proxy.conf"

Include "conf/extra/httpd-default.conf"

Include "conf/extra/httpd-xampp.conf"



<IfModule proxy_html_module>

Include conf/extra/proxy-html.conf

</IfModule>



Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf

<IfModule ssl_module>

SSLRandomSeed startup builtin

SSLRandomSeed connect builtin

</IfModule>





AcceptFilter http none



<IfModule mod_proxy.c>

<IfModule mod_proxy_ajp.c>

Include "conf/extra/httpd-ajp.conf"

</IfModule>

</IfModule>

httpd-vhosts.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerAdmin septagramm@gmail.com

    DocumentRoot "S:/efit_rails4/public"

    Alias /remote-control "S:/ssm-misc/remote-control"

    <Directory "S:/efit_rails4/public">

        Require all granted

        AllowOverride All

    </Directory>

    <Directory "S:/ssm-misc/remote-control">

        Require all granted

        AllowOverride All

    </Directory>

    ServerName SSM

</VirtualHost>

bottom of error.log:

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:56.875099 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 9780:tid 380] AH00456: Apache Lounge VC11 Server built: Jul 17 2014 11:50:08

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:56.875099 2014] [core:notice] [pid 9780:tid 380] AH00094: Command line: 'c:\xampp\apache\bin\httpd.exe -d C:/XAMPP/apache'

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:56.876100 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 9780:tid 380] AH00418: Parent: Created child process 8276

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:57.155297 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 8276:tid 384] AH01909: www.example.com:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:57.255380 2014] [ssl:warn] [pid 8276:tid 384] AH01909: www.example.com:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

[Fri Nov 28 05:43:57.280385 2014] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 8276:tid 384] AH00354: Child: Starting 150 worker threads.

[Fri Nov 28 05:44:18.865136 2014] [authz_core:error] [pid 8276:tid 1728] [client 127.0.0.1:63898] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/.htaccess

Update

After some persuasion (and help from @AD7six) I was able to get the debug output working. There appears to be a new-ish way to configure that:

RewriteBase /remote-control/api/

I'm weirded out by the rewrite mod seemingly rewriting the URL correctly and then promptly serving 404. Also, I tried experimenting and found out that if I add an explicit rewrite base equal to the current directory, e.g.:

RewriteBase /remote-control/api/

The rewrite sort of works - I get index.php served, though I have other errors so I can't quite confirm if it truly works. However, I'm not entirely satisfied with this as a solution. Besides, the debug output in this case is somewhat longer, as if it's making another pass or something. And in the end, it comes to an identical filename, but without 404:

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] strip per-dir prefix: S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/session -> session

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] applying pattern '^' to uri 'session'

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] rewrite 'session' -> 'index.php'

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] add per-dir prefix: index.php -> S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/index.php

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace2] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] trying to replace prefix S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/ with /remote-control/api/

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d4118/initial] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] internal redirect with /remote-control/api/index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d7bb8/initial/redir#1] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] strip per-dir prefix: S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/index.php -> index.php

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.417478 2014] [rewrite:trace3] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d7bb8/initial/redir#1] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] applying pattern '^' to uri 'index.php'

[Thu Dec 04 00:37:31.418478 2014] [rewrite:trace1] [pid 5636:tid 1728] mod_rewrite.c(475): [client ::1:58668] ::1 - - [localhost/sid#f51730][rid#88d7bb8/initial/redir#1] [perdir S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/] pass through S:/ssm-misc/remote-control/api/index.php

What can possibly be going on here?

Your RewriteRule is wrong. It should look like this:

  RewriteEngine on

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php [L,QSA]

Adjust the redirect path to suit, but you needed more than just the ^ character there.