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#1 2006-02-09 16:27:14

jordi

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From: Barcelona

Registered: 2005-09-14

Posts: 94

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stats not accessible on Dreamhost

Usually for domains hosted at Dreamhost you can access some statistics package at “yourdomain.com/stats”. However, in domains with a TXP install this URL resolves to a 404 page.

Anyone hosted at Dreamhost has had this experience before? And, how did you solve it?

EDIT:

OK, I found the answer. If anybody wants to know, I added these lines to my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [L]

(just before RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR])

Last edited by jordi (2006-02-09 16:35:34)

#2 2006-02-09 16:36:50

Joey

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-01-19

Posts: 257

Re: stats not accessible on Dreamhost

I do have this experience also, but I never asked if somebody knows a solution. So…? Any thoughts?

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Joey

#3 2006-02-09 18:06:20

placenamehere

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Registered: 2004-11-21

Posts: 88

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Re: stats not accessible on Dreamhost

yes.. you need to duplicate the rewrite they use to get to the /stats/ folder. My rewrite rules look something like:

<pre><code>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
</IfModule>
</code></pre>

theres also documentation of this in their wiki as its an issue that pops up with many packages that use similar rewrite rules:

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Mod_rewrite
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Making_stats_accessible_with_htaccess

Last edited by placenamehere (2006-02-09 18:06:55)

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