XAMPP .htaccess mod_rewrite not working

Question

I am running XAMPP for Windows 5.6.11. I have the following PHP file:

C:\xampp\htdocs\www.johndoe.com\index.php

which I am accessing as

http://localhost/www.johndoe.com/

As a matter of fact I need to access the following page:

http://localhost/www.johndoe.com/?value=about

as either of the following two:

http://localhost/www.johndoe.com/about/ http://localhost/www.johndoe.com/about

so I have the following in my .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^www\.johndoe\.com/about/?$ www.johndoe.com/?value=about

However, this is not working, as accessing the former sites gives me a 401 (not found).

Here is what I have in C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf:

<Directory /> AllowOverride none Require all denied </Directory> DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs" <Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory>

What must I do to get my .htaccess file to be parsed and carry out the substitution I'm after?

I have tried placing the following in C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf:

<Directory /> AllowOverride all Require all allowed </Directory>

but have had no luck with it. I have even tried changing my .htaccess file to the following:

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteBase /www.johndoe.com/ RewriteRule ^about/?$ ?value=about

but I'm still getting the 404 not found error message.

Well, I'm not sure what happened. Earlier I was getting the message about there being a "server configuration error: page not found", and now it is redirecting me to http://localhost/dashboard/ (Welcome to XAMPP). — John Sonderson
– John Sonderson, Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 23:04
It's often a bit trial and error with this... what I'd do is start small, put the .htaccess and the index.php in the root directory, reomve the RewriteBase and see whether any rewriting takes place then. A good way to find out whether the file is being acknowledged at all is to put an intentional syntax error in it (RewriteBrase) and see whether it throws a 500 error. A good way to test whether a rewrite rule works is to specify an external site as the target (RewriteRule ^about/?$ http://example.com). Also do replace the ?menu1=about with the full name of the index.php file. Good luck! — Pekka
– Pekka, Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 23:15
Thanks. I don't know what was wrong, but it's working now: no modification to C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf, no RewriteBase directive, the .htaccess is inside www.johndoe.com, and the following works: RewriteEngine on, RewriteRule ^about/?$ ?menu1=get-in-touch (no .htaccess file in the directory above). — John Sonderson
– John Sonderson, Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 23:20

Glorfindel · Accepted Answer · 2022-03-10 10:00:37Z

As it turns out, with the default XAMPP configuration there is no need to C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf, hence no need to restart Apache as we are just making changes to C:\xampp\htdocs\www.johndoe.com\.htaccess. As this post on RewriteBase explains, we do not need RewriteBase since we will not use absolute paths in the destination links for .htaccess rules. Since relative links in these destination rules will be relative to the directory we are serving out of, we need delete the www.johndoe.com directory from the rule, as follows:

Place the .htaccess in ``C:\xampp\htdocs\www.johndoe.com`.

Place the following rewiterule in it:

 RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^about/?$ index.php?value=about

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