Mailing List Archive: Enabling mod_rewrite on a windows installation....I'm stumped

Enabling mod_rewrite on a windows installation....I'm stumped

Feb 3, 2002, 10:16 PM

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Whenever I try to use anything in an .htaccess file requiring the rewrite
engine to be enabled I get an internal server error and the following error
in my log:

[Sun Feb 03 23:36:50 2002] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] d:/web/.htaccess:
Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module
not included in the server configuration

How do I enable mod_rewrite? Any help would be appreciated

Also I am using Apache 1.3.23 installed through the msi on WinXP and Win98
(doesn't work on either).

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RE: Enabling mod_rewrite on a windows installation....I'm stumped [ In reply to ]

joshua at slive

Feb 3, 2002, 12:00 PM

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> From: Null [mailto:Null@Stronger.org]

>
> Whenever I try to use anything in an .htaccess file requiring the rewrite
> engine to be enabled I get an internal server error and the
> following error
> in my log:
>
> [Sun Feb 03 23:36:50 2002] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] d:/web/.htaccess:
> Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined
> by a module
> not included in the server configuration
>
>
> How do I enable mod_rewrite? Any help would be appreciated

You need to use a LoadModule line in httpd.conf to enable mod_rewrite.
There is probably one there already, commented out.

Joshua.

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Re: Enabling mod_rewrite on a windows installation....I'm stumped [ In reply to ]

Null at Stronger

Feb 4, 2002, 6:13 PM

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Thank you, it seems to work now. I failed to realize that an "Apache
Restart" and shutting it down and restarting were not the same thing
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@slive.ca>
To: <users@httpd.apache.org>; "Null" <Null@Stronger.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 2:00 PM
Subject: RE: Enabling mod_rewrite on a windows installation....I'm stumped

>
> > From: Null [mailto:Null@Stronger.org]
>
> >
> > Whenever I try to use anything in an .htaccess file requiring the
rewrite
> > engine to be enabled I get an internal server error and the
> > following error
> > in my log:
> >
> > [Sun Feb 03 23:36:50 2002] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] d:/web/.htaccess:
> > Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined
> > by a module
> > not included in the server configuration
> >
> >
> > How do I enable mod_rewrite? Any help would be appreciated
>
> You need to use a LoadModule line in httpd.conf to enable mod_rewrite.
> There is probably one there already, commented out.
>
> Joshua.
>
>
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