htaccess rewrite question

Question

Hi,

I want to rewrite the url http://mydomain/myapp/fakefolder to http://mydomain/myapp/index.php

I tried the following rule but thats not working

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^fakefolder$ index.php  

The .htaccess file is located inside myapp.

Kindly help

Thanks vineet

Answer 1

To begin with, your folder is not called vineetstore: it's called fakefolder.

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The corrected rule works for me so I'd dare say your Apache installation is not configured to read .htaccess files in such location. You can easily test that: make a syntax error on purpose and see whether your site crashes.

Find your virtual host or site definition and make sure you have this directive:

AllowOverride All