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Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
I am running textpattern 4.2.0 on my MacBook with 10.6.2. Anyone know if it’s possible to use clean URLs? I tried everything in the FAQ. I have Textpattern installed in /Library/WebServer/Documents and access my site thru http://localhost. Thanks for any suggestions!
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Re: Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
I don’t really know what I’m talking about in this area, but I do have clean URLs working on Snow Leopard. I’m using the built-in Apache 2 server and PHP 5.3. As I recall the key was adding the following Directory block to /private/etc/apache2/users/Me.conf (substituting my login name for “Me”, in both file paths shown here; I had to create this file):
<Directory "/Users/Me/Sites/">
Options All MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>As you can see I am using the “Sites” folder rather than the default /Library/WebServer/Documents. To get this working in the latter I suppose I would directly edit the second Directory block in /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf
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Re: Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
I moved everything to my Sites directory and changed the Me.conf file (marcia.conf and directory is /Users/marcia/Sites/ (also restarted Apache) but still can’t use clean URLs. Went thru the .htaccess changes again from the FAQ but no luck so far.
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Re: Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
Can’t remember if I had to change this one or not, but the username.conf file needs to be included somewhere; in my case this happens in /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-userdir.conf (which itself is called in the default httpd.conf):
Include /private/etc/apache2/users/*.conf
Yes, restart Apache to test any such changes.
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Re: Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
It’s working with clean urls! Thank you for your help. The includes were there but it didn’t seem to acknowledge the users/*.conf or .htaccess (404 for localhost/~marcia but ok with localhost/~marcia/index.php) but I changed this in httpd.conf:
AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All in this section:
# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.
# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:
# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
#
AllowOverride AllRestarted Apache (thru Sys Prefs).
Still didn’t work but getting closer.
Then tried different things in the .htaccess, finally figured out:
I had RewriteBase /Users/marcia/Sites/
but should be:
RewriteBase /~marcia/
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Re: Clean URLs on localhost Snow Leopard
Glad you got it working. Setting up virtual hosts might also make things a bit easier (no need for RewriteBase directives, for one). I recommend VirtualHostX. Note that if you already have virtual hosts set up, VirtualHostX may conflict with this.
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