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POConverting mod_rewrite rules in .htaccess to httpd.conf
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copied!<p>I have a set of html files at: www.example.com and the "main site" (in beta) at: www.example.com/abcd/ (for which these mod_rewrite rules are needed)</p> <p>The mod_rewrite rules run fine in a directory within .htaccess. I need to put them in httpd.conf:</p> <p>The rules look like this in .htaccess:</p> <pre><code>RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /abcd/ RewriteRule ^.*/codelibrary/(.*)$ codelibrary/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^.*/in_upload/images/(.*)$ in_upload/images/$1 [L] ... </code></pre> <p>Copying the below into the httpd.conf file didnt work:</p> <pre><code><VirtualHost *:80> ServerAlias www.example.com ServerAdmin nobody@example.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html ServerSignature On <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /abcd/ ... </code></pre> <p>It gave an error:</p> <pre><code>RewriteBase: only valid in per-directory config files </code></pre> <p>Do I need to modify all rules like this?</p> <pre><code>RewriteRule ^.*/abcd/codelibrary/(.*)$ abcd/codelibrary/$1 [L] RewriteRule ^.*/abcd/in_upload/images/(.*)$ abcd/in_upload/images/$1 [L] </code></pre> <hr> <p><strong>Edit1</strong></p> <p>I tried to convert the following lines from:</p> <pre><code>... RewriteRule (.*)ins.html$ browse.php?type=ins [L] ... RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ browse.php?type=$1&catId=$3 [L] RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\s]*)/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ browse.php?type=$1&catId=$4&subCatId=$5 [L] ... </code></pre> <p>To:</p> <pre><code>... RewriteRule ^/abcd/ins.html$ abcd/browse.php?type=ins [L] ... RewriteRule ^/abcd/([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ abcd/browse.php?type=$1&catId=$3 [L] RewriteRule ^/abcd/([a-zA-Z\-]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]*)/([a-zA-Z0-9\-\s]*)/([0-9]*)/([0-9]*)\.html$ abcd/browse.php?type=$1&catId=$4&subCatId=$5 [L] ... </code></pre> <p>but I got errors as follows.</p> <p>When I try accessing <a href="http://www.example.com/abcd/ins/Sustainability/282.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/abcd/ins/Sustainability/282.html</a> , I get the following error in the log:</p> <pre><code>IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /abcd/ins/Sustainability/282.html IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) rewrite '/abcd/ins/Sustainability/282.html' -> 'abcd/browse.php?type=ins&catId=282' IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) local path result: abcd/browse.php </code></pre> <p>When I try accessing <a href="http://www.example.com/abcd/ins.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.example.com/abcd/ins.html</a> , I get the following error in the log:</p> <pre><code>IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /abcd/ins.html IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) rewrite '/abcd/ins.html' -> 'abcd/browse.php?type=ins' IPADDRESS - - [DATETIME] [www.example.com/sid#2b3cde3c1be0][rid#2b3cec076e70/initial] (2) local path result: abcd/browse.php </code></pre> <p>I've set RewriteLogLevel to 2</p> <p>The unmodified version of our mod_rewrite rules are at: <a href="https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4237/url-rewritten-pages-take-much-longer-to-load">https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/4237/url-rewritten-pages-take-much-longer-to-load</a></p>

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