Fail to enable mod_rewrite on my apache server

Question

This is how my apache httpd file looks like:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so <Directory / > Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride ALL Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory>

Now i try to execute this simple mod rule:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^product-([0-9]+)\.html$ index.php?id=$1

This rewrite should happen when i press this link:

 <a href="product-91.html">Press me</a>

bengert · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10 17:16:02Z

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if you put your rewrite rule in the apache config you will need a leading / after the ^(not needed for htaccess). Try the rule with out ^ to see if it matches. I have also had some servers/vhosts where I needed to add RewriteBase rewrite would work.

answered Jul 10, 2012 at 17:16

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Dmitry Makovetskiyd Over a year ago

That has worked. very strange..why did the ^ interfer? or was it the RewriteBAse that did the job

bengert Over a year ago

If you have time you might want to try playing around with both. ^ is start of string. You can try replacing ^ with ^/ to see if that works.

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