.htaccess for cakephp

Question

I'm trying to get a CakePHP application to work. For this, I've set up a brand new Debian installation, updated the configuration and put everything in /var/www, which has the following content:

app
cake
.htaccess
index.php
vendors

The .htaccess file contains the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    /webroot/ [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) /webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

If I access my virtualhost (http://myhost/) I see the correct page. But even the JavaScript loaded with src="/js/validate.js" fails (it's located within /var/www/app/webroot/js/validate.js):

[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [error] [client 10.7.10.52] Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error. Use 'LimitInternalRecursion' to increase the limit if necessary. Use 'LogLevel debug' to get a backtrace.
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3063): [client 10.7.10.52] r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /webroot/js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] core.c(3069): [client 10.7.10.52] redirected from r->uri = /js/prototype.js
[Wed Aug 26 15:45:12 2009] [debug] mod_deflate.c(632): [client 10.7.10.52] Zlib: Compressed 649 to 405 : URL /webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/webroot/js/prototype.js

Hence my question: what is the correct .htaccess required for CakePHP?

Many, many thanks!

Answer 1

The correct .htaccess is the default:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
  RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

You have to add this in "/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default":

<Directory /var/www>
  Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride All
  Order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>

if section already exists change AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All

Answer 2

The answer is that there are 3 different .htaccess files:

/var/www/app/webroot/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

/var/www/app/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule    ^$    webroot/    [L]
    RewriteRule    (.*) webroot/$1    [L]
</IfModule>

/var/www/.htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule ^$ app/webroot/ [L]
    RewriteRule (.*) app/webroot/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

It's been my fault, everything is listed on the CakePHP site. Thanks to everyone!