Hi,

I have a site working perfectly on my localhost. Want to move it to a GoDaddy.com server.

Have uploaded all my files but during installation, i'm getting a mod_rewrite error.

Warning: file_get_contents(http://../InstallerTest/testrewrite) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /home/content/s/a/n/../html/rewritetest.php on line 47

mod_rewrite doesn't appear to be working. Make sure: mod_rewrite is enabled in your httpd.conf
AllowOverride is enabled for the current path.

How do i go about making mod_rewrite enabled? GoDaddy were about as useful as a hole in the head!

I've read that i need to insert code into the .htaccess file such as

RewriteEngine on

but nothing seemed to happen. Can someone please help. :)

Thanks

Hi Briohny!

Maybe it helps to define the RewriteBase in the .htaccess-file:

RewriteBase /

Cheers,
Peter

Hi Briohny

I had this same problem, the solution was to copy and paste the code below into the .htaccess:

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4
RewriteEngine On


### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif)|(\.jpg)|(\.png)|(\.css)|(\.js)|(\.php)$ 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###

I also had a page refresh problem on godaddy whereby when you refresh a page it can't find it, which can be fixed by commenting out line ~320 in the file /sapphire/core/HTTP.PHP

// header(“Last-Modified: “ . self::gmt_date(self::$modification_date)); 

This was all contained in a guide to installing SS on godaddy that was on an old blog but unfortunately that blog no longer exists, perhaps it would be good to get this information on the site somewhere?

Aram