I am using Apache 2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04 with PHP 5.3.10. The real domain name has been obfuscated to example.com for this question.
I am attempting to set AllowOverride to None. I currently have an .htaccess file in my DocumentRoot. This is what it looks like:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# Make sure directory listing is disabled
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
# Send request via index.php (again, not if its a real file or folder)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# deal with php5-cgi first
<IfModule mod_fcgid.c>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_fcgid.c>
# for normal Apache installations
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
# for Apache FGCI installations
<IfModule !mod_php5.c>
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
I ran phpinfo() to determine that my Server API is Apache 2.0 Handler. This makes me think that the rewrite rule that I need is RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]. Is that correct?
I tried to move this rewrite rule into my sites-available/example.com configuration file, but whenever I set AllowOverride to None, I end up with a 500 error.
This is what my example.com configuration file looked like before:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /httpd/www/example.com/public
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /httpd/www/example.com/public>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.com-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
The above configuration works fine. I attempted to merge the contents of my .htaccess file into my sites-available/example.com file. The results look like this:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /httpd/www/example.com/public
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /httpd/www/example.com/public>
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/example.com-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/example.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Oh wow. What a n00b. Do you see what I did wrong? I sure do.
