.htaccess rewriterule not working correct on mac

Question

I have a website project on my mac book pro leopard, and I am using built in apache2 and php. I've made my configurations in both httpd.conf and user.conf to use htaccess. Changes done like :

LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_rewrite.so

<Directory >
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

The problem is when i want to open a site like localhost/~username/site/site/index.php/welcome, index.php does some operations and finds the right controller and the right page.

But when I try to enter site like site/welcome apache gives me the following error :

Not Found

The requested URL Users/username/Sites/site/index.php/welcome was not found on this server.

The problem is apache gets this like it is indeed a file and the error statement gives it in a file system way, but this request must be fetched to index.php instead.

my .htaccess file looks like this

<ifModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [NC,QSA,L]
</ifModule>

What bothers me that this configuration works on both Linux and Windows but does not work on Mac. I feel doomed : )

Answer 1

I met the same problem too! 'DocumentRoot' doesn't work for me in Lion.

But this works:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /~username/YOURPath

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [NC,QSA,L]

Answer 2

On Mac OSX Mountain Lion, make sure AllowOverride is set to All on Directory /

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

and root directory of your document root path:

<Directory "/Library/WebServer/Documents">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

also make sure that FollowSymLinks is included in Options.

if your "index.php-less pretty URL" is not on your DocumentRoot then add the following RewriteBase directory on your .htaccess file where your index.php exists, like the following example:

RewriteBase /~username/site/site/

If you would like to change the .htaccess file name to something else like .acl or htaccess.txt, uncomment the following line on your httpd.conf

# Various default settings
Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-default.conf

and change .htaccess in AccessFileName directive to anything you like in extra/httpd-default.conf file. For example if you would like to change .htaccess file to htaccess.txt change it to:

AccessFileName htaccess.txt

save them, restart your apache web server on OSX Mountain Lion, and hope you are good to go. Hope this helps.