I know mod_rewrite and .htaccess is a pretty common topic.  I have searched through the forums and haven’t found a solution to my problem.

Here’s my issue:
I have a fairly vanilla OS X setup, replacing Apple’s PHP4 with the Entropy.ch PHP 5.x module.

I do my development from the my ~/Sites/ directory which houses a number of my projects and I’d prefer to keep my CI projects there as well.  I’d also like to test rewriting my URLs locally so I can get a better grasp of the subject.

here’s the .htaccess file that I’m trying out:

My index.php file is located in the site’s root directory ~/Sites/ci_test/ along with my .htaccess file.

Here’s the kicker:
I tried moving my entire “ci_test” folder into /Library/WebServer/Documents/ (OS X’s Apache root directory) and the same .htaccess file (rewrite rules) works fine.

Are there any other OS X users (or other *nix users for that matter) that have things setup this way that have any idea what might be causing this?

Thanks for your help,
Jake

Ok, it’s a problem with your rewrite base….

Change it from

to:

Because apache runs with user-based htdocs directories.

Let me know how that goes.

Elliot

Another suggestion…..

I run the wonderful MAMP utility on MAC OSX and it runs like a dream, www.mamp.info. Can switch between PHP4 or 5 easily!! Has phpmyadmin already setup and it is FREE!!!

Anyway this works nicely in that setup.

James

@Elliot - Thanks for the suggestion,  I’ve tried modifying the RewriteBase to ~/jake/ as well as a number of variations including (~/jake/Sites/, ~/jake/Sites/ci_test/, etc.) without any luck.

@jamesnicol -  I’ll checkout MAMP, I remember reading about it in the past.  Ideally I’d like to figure out what is going on here though because my production server is also OS X and I’d like to be able to troubleshoot issues on that end if they arise.

Thanks,
Jake

Alright, I’ve made a little bit of progress with this issue.

I found that the per-user httpd.conf files are located in the /etc/httpd/users directory there I found my file “jake.conf”

I modified my jake.conf file to look like this:

things are looking better now with one exception.  I needed to add “FollowSymLinks” to the Options directive, however, in doing so mod_rewrite attempts to locate my Code Igniter folder in my “DocumentRoot”.  The result is the rewrite looks like this:
/Library/WebServer/Documents/Users/jake/Sites/ci_test/index.php/controller

when it should read like this:
/Users/jake/Sites/ci_test/index.php/controller

Am I missing something? Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jake

There is my one, thats all I needed for it to work.

<Directory “/Users/myname/Sites/”>
  Options Indexes MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

And here is an example .htaccess that I just dump in my dir:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|style\.css|images|robots\.txt|coffee\.js)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /~myname/project/index.php/$1 [L]

So my urls are http://me.local/~myname/project/

Thanks HushPe,

That did the trick, I guess I need to read more about mod_rewrite.  I overlooked the fact that it was appending “index.php” to my defined DocumentRoot directory.  With this rule it explicitly says use my home directory as the base.  Works great!

Thanks,
Jake

Ah, of course…. you don’t always need the rewrite base, it’ll do it per current directory.

Cool, we all learn something new