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Hi,

How do I activate mod_rewrite for Apache? I'm having problems with URL rewrites in .htaccess file. I keep getting Internal Server Error (500) while trying to access any page. The Apache error.log file says:

[alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/Webs/xampp/htdocs/cpg-nuke_cvs/html/.htaccess: RewriteRule: cannot compile regular expression '^([a-zA-Z0-9_=+-\\%]*)\\.html'

which corresponds with the RewriteRule in .htaccess:

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RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_=+-\%]*)\.html index.php?name=$1

To get there I uncommented

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LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

but I'm not sure that's enough. before I did I used to get:

[alert] [client 127.0.0.1] C:/Webs/xampp/htdocs/cpg-nuke_cvs/html/.htaccess: Invalid command 'RewriteEngine', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

The regular expression should be fine, as it's a part of CPG-Nuke code. How do I work this out?

I'm using XAMPP v1.42 configuration.

Help?

Have you turned the rewrite engine on?

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_=+-\%]*)\.html index.php?name=$1
.....

and soforth

Good luck.

John F.

Yes, it's turned on.
This .htaccess file is widely-used and should be valid. It's working on other configurations. I've tried it at home using easyPHP v1.7 and it worked fine.