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#842 – Use setting in httpd.conf, not htaccess

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Wednesday, 12 August 2015 21:55 UTC

bdapat

Hello Weeblr team,

I host my customers on my own virtual machine on Azure using Apache. I have complete access to my httpd.conf, and would like to apply my RewriteRules there. I have tried, using the following, but your software seems to ignore this and only look for the htaccess file. Is that correct? Can I avoid using the htaccess file?

I have this in my httpd.conf:
<Directory />
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.
</Directory>

Thanks in advance!

Thursday, 13 August 2015 09:29 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

Nope, this is not correct. sh404SEF is a PHP program, running inside Joomla. It's not concerned with the web server you use and has no relationship with using a .htaccess, an nginx configuration file or whatever equivalent URL rewriting method exists on various web servers.

The best way to go to configure your server is simply to disable sh404SEF, and configure the server with just Joomla SEF. When Joomla SEF "works" (ie you don't get 404s anymore), then sh404SEF will also "works" - though again, Joomla or sh404SEF makes no use of an .htaccess of httpd.conf file, they run in PHP and how the web server operate is unrelated.

Rgds

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