Problem: with Mod_rewrite, multiview & Apache config
Introduction: The website is in french and i had problem with unicode encoding and mod_rewrite within php wihtout multiviews
Old server was not handling utf8 correctly (somewhere between PHP, apache mod rewrite or mysql)
Updated Server to Ubuntu 11.04 , the process was destructive
lost all files in var/www/ (the site was mainly 2 files index.php & static.php)
lost the site specific .Htaccess file
lost MySQL dbs
lost old apache.conf
What i have done so far:
What works:
Setup GNutls for SSL, Listen 443 = port.conf
Created 2 Vhosts in one file for :80 and :443 = website.conf
Enforce SSL = Redirecting :80 to :443 with a mod_rewrite redirect
Tried to set utf-8 everywhere.. Set charset and collation , db connection , mb_settings , names utf-8 and utf8_unicode_ci, everywhere (php,mysql,apache)
to be sure to serve files as UTF-8 i enabled multiview
renamed index.php.utf8.fr and static.php.utf8.fr
With multiview enabled, Multibytes Accents in URL works
SSL TLS 1.0
What dont work:
With multiview enabled , mod_rewrite works for only one of my rewriterules
With multiview Disabled, i loose access to the document root as "Forbidden"
With multiview Disabled, i loose Multibytes (single charater accent)
The Apache Default server is full of settings. (what can i safely remove ?)
these are my configuration files so far
:80 Vhost file (this one work you can use this to force redirect to https)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}
LanguagePriority fr
:443 Vhost file (GnuTls is working)
DocumentRoot /var/www/x
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
<Directory "/var/www/x">
allow from all
Options FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AddLanguage fr .fr
AddCharset UTF-8 .utf8
LanguagePriority fr
</Directory>
GnuTLSEnable on
GnuTLSPriorities SECURE:+VERS-TLS1.1:+AES-256-CBC:+RSA:+SHA1:+COMP-NULL
GnuTLSCertificateFile /path/to/certificate.crt
GnuTLSKeyFile /path/to/certificate.key
<Directory "/var/www/x/base">
</Directory>
Basic .htaccess file
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
Options FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^api/$ /index.php.utf8.fr?v=4 [L,NC,R]
RewriteRule ^contrib/$ /index.php.utf8.fr?v=2 [L,NC,R]
RewriteRule ^coop/$ /index.php.utf8.fr?v=3 [L,NC,R]
RewriteRule ^crowd/$ /index.php.utf8.fr?v=2 [L,NC,R]
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /static.php.utf8.fr?VALUEONE=$2&VALUETWO=$1 [L]
So my quesiton is whats wrong , what do i have missing is there extra settings that i need to kill from the apache default . in order to be sure all parts are using utf-8 at all time, and that my mod_rewrite rules work with accent
Thank you all in advance for your help,
I will follow this question closely , to add any needed information.
