Is there a way to find out if a server supports mod_rewrite & .htcaccess

Question

Is there a way to find out if a server supports mod_rewrite & .htcaccess

Answer 1

http://us3.php.net/apache_get_modules will output something similar to the following:

Array
(
    [0] => core
    [1] => http_core
    [2] => mod_so
    [3] => sapi_apache2
    [4] => mod_mime
    [5] => mod_rewrite
)

Just look for mod_rewrite. You could even write a small function using in_array() to make it easier to determine whether a given module is loaded or not.

Answer 2

I'd create a test scenario by adding mod_rewrite to .htaccess. There's an example here.