.htaccess working on remote server but does not work on localhost. Getting 404 errors on localhost
- by Afsheen Khosravian
MY PROBLEM:
When I visit localhost the site does not work. It shows some text from the site but it seems the server can not locate any other files. Here is a snippet of the errors from firebug:
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - localhost/css/popup.css"
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - localhost/css/style.css"
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - localhost/css/player.css"
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - localhost/css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.8.11.custom.css"
"NetworkError: 404 Not Found - localhost/js/jquery.js"
It seems my server is looking for the files in the wrong places. For example, localhost/css/popup.css is actually located at localhost/app/webroot/css/popup.css.
I have my site setup on a remote server with the same exact configurations and it works perfectly fine. I am just having this issue trying to run the site on my laptop at localhost. I edited my VirtualHosts file DocumentRoot and to /home/user/public_html/site.com/public/app/webroot/ and this reduces some errors but I feel that this is wrong and sort of hacking it since I didn't use these setting on my production server which works.
The last note I want to make is that the website uses dynamic URLs. I dont know if that has anything to do with it. For example, on the production server the URLS are: site.com/#hello/12321.
HERES WHAT I AM WORKING WITH:
I have a LAMP server setup on my laptop which runs on Ubuntu 11.10.
I have enabled mod_rewrite:
sudo a2enmod rewrite
Then I edited my Virtual Hosts file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DirectoryIndex index.php
DocumentRoot /home/user/public_html/site.com/public
<Directory /home/user/public_html/site.com/public/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Then I restarted apache.
My website is using cakePHP. This is the directory structure of the website:
"/home/user/public_html/site.com/public" contains:
index.php app cake plugins vendors
These are my .htaccess files:
/home/user/public_html/site.com/public/app/.htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^$ webroot/ [L]
RewriteRule (.*) webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
/home/user/public_html/site.com/public/app/webroot/.htaccess:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
