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mod-rewrite bug?

DarrellD Member
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Hey Guys,

I don't know much about mod_rewrite and how ZP uses it, but I think I might have found a bug.

On one of my test instances, I have
`$conf['mod_rewrite'] = false;`
so that I can see what's happening with the URL (since my other test installations all use mod_rewrite). Anyways, it's setup as `http://localhost/zp103`
and when I tried going to the admin I just went to the location bar, typed in /admin and pressed enter.
The next thing I know, I'm taken to `http://localhost/zp/zen/admin` instead of `http://localhost/zp103/zen/admin`

I look at my .htaccess file and see:
`RewriteBase /zp`
when I changed that to
`RewriteBase /zp103`
the problem is fixed.

I thought that if I had mod_rewrite set to false, that it would not use any of the rewrite options.

Is this a bug or am I just not understanding it correctly?

Comments

  • trisweb Administrator
    The .htaccess is still there, and since your apache is using it, it still "works". Even going to /album/image.jpg will still work; the $conf['mod_rewrite'] option just switches the way the URLs are composed in ZP to the non-rewritten style.

    The actual admin link is /zen/ in 1.0.3 -- /admin/ is just a convenient mod_rewrite redirect that works if you've got it and the RewriteBase is correct.

    If mod_rewrite was actually not installed and not working, or if you delete the .htaccess file, you won't have the problem, so no, let's not call it a bug.
  • DarrellD Member
    Okay. Thanks for clearing that up.
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