First off, thanks in advance for anyone helping me, I'm a first time user of SS and thought it was straightforward until I ran into this problem.

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Friendly URLs are not working. This is most likely because mod_rewrite isn't configuredcorrectly on your site. Please check the following things in your Apache configuration; you may need to get your web host or server administrator to do this for you:
mod_rewrite is enabled
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I've looked into countless of others who had the same issue, but nothing seems to do the trick.

My .htaccess file looks like this:

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### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /beta

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]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###
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I'm using WAMP on 32-bit Win7, PHP 5.

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

Heya,

Your best bet issue is that the mod_rewrite module is not loaded in the apache at all.

Have a look in the apache configuration file and you will most likely find that the load module line for mod_rewrite is commented out like this

“#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so”

Remove the hash, and restart apache and then you should be good to go.

Cheers

Owen

Thanks OwenW for your informative reply.

Unfortunately there was already no hash for that line in the apache config file.

What I am unsure about is (and bear with me, this is my first time using apache/php), should the apache files/folders be present in the remote host? They are presently only in the local host.

Perhaps this is the issue? Or something else?

If anyone has any ideas of what I could be looking out for, it could be something fundamental I'm overlooking here, or not.

Thanks,
Jonathan

If its WAMP Server 2, here is what you can do.

In the bottom corner of the Task Tray on Windows where your clock is, there should be a semi circle in white that is an icon.
Click on it and it should be the WAMP Menu. go to Apache - > Service and click on Stop Service.

Then go to Apache - > Apache Modules, slide the mouse down to the bottom so that it scrolls down and look for rewrite_module.
It is unlikely to be ticked. Now I had some problems here getting it to tick. So try it a few times.

Then restart Apache by going to Apache - > Service and click on Start/Resume Service.

This should start Apache with rewrite enabled.

That should help with your rewrite problems.

Chris

Good tip BigChris but to no avail -- the rewrite_module is already checked off in my Apache Modules.

I'm suspecting perhaps the issue is that I did not install the SilverStripe to my root folder, but rather into a folder called 'beta'. Can anyone let me know if this is problematic?

I wouldn't mind restarting the process and putting it in the root, but I don't want the site to display until I've finalized a few things... is there a way to avoid the SilverStripe site being shown and having my under construction page there until I am ready?

Thanks to anyone has answers to these two questions, or has suggestions in solving the original problem (understanding why I'm getting a mod_rewrite / allowoverride error despite both being enabled).

Best,
Jonathan

The default folder that WAMP will look in is usualy C:\wamp\www\

You can put your files into that directory or a folder in it. If you choose a folder on that directory your web browser will look for localhost/foldername/ as the base url.

Alternatively you can edit the Apache Conf file so that the web document root is changed to be a directory of your choosing.
Go to Apache -> httpd.conf and edit it in a text editor.
Changed the directory of document root from
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/" to whatever you want.

And changed also <Directory "c:/wamp/www/"> to your new directory.

Good luck
Chris

Thanks, though I was aware of most of that. What is mostly needed is to set up my site so that the silverstripe index page runs out of www.mysite.com/subdirectory as opposed to www.mysite.com. Any way to do this?

To run it out of a subdirectory, create the directory and install silverstripe to that directory. Silverstripe should work fine from www.mysite.com/subdirectory