.htaccess file not recognized

[Thomas Taschler]

Hi, i just installed a fresh installation of Invision Community v4.7.13 on a self hosted server.
Installation went smooth and everything.

Then I wanted to activate the Friendly URLs.
So I downloaded the auto-generated file and uploaded it to my forum root, renaming it to .htaccess

This is where my problem starts.
The forum software won't find/accept the .htaccess file

What can I do to make it work?

[Daniel F]

Are you sure that you’re using Apache and not Nginx ? 

[Thomas Taschler]

Yes, I'm running Apache 2.4.52 and PHP 8.2.10 on Ubuntu 22.04

Edited September 27, 2023 by Thomas Taschler

[Adlago]

Check htaccess file permissions.
It should be 0644

[Thomas Taschler]

I set the file permissions to 0644, but still the same error.

Filezilla:

Edited September 27, 2023 by Thomas Taschler

[Adlago]

Are you sure the file you uploaded has content?
Open this file with notepad++ and check contents.

[Thomas Taschler]

Yes, this is the content of the file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options -MultiViews
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule \.(js|css|jpeg|jpg|gif|png|ico|map|webp)(\?|$) /404error.php [L,NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

This is the file the "download this file"-link in the first post provides.

The necessary mods should also be ok

Edited September 27, 2023 by Thomas Taschler
Also checked mods

[Adlago]

I assume that after uploading a htaccess file, you then saved a change here.

Maybe you should start Support section in ACP and check if there is no error registered there.

Also, check in your server PHP modules management - this is for my server

Edited September 27, 2023 by Adlago

[Thomas Taschler]

Do you mean this page?

Seems fine.

I did not modify the content of the .htaccess file.
The code I posted earlier was obtained via Filezilla / View File.

 

Those are my installed php modules:

[PHP Modules]
bcmath
bz2
calendar
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
exif
FFI
fileinfo
filter
ftp
gd
gettext
gmp
hash
iconv
intl
json
ldap
libxml
mbstring
mcrypt
mysqli
mysqlnd
openssl
pcntl
pcre
PDO
pdo_mysql
pdo_pgsql
pgsql
Phar
posix
random
readline
Reflection
session
shmop
SimpleXML
soap
sockets
sodium
SPL
standard
sysvmsg
sysvsem
sysvshm
tokenizer
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
xsl
Zend OPcache
zip
zlib

[Zend Modules]
Zend OPcache

 

Edited September 27, 2023 by Thomas Taschler
Installed PHP modules

[Adlago]

6 minutes ago, Thomas Taschler said:

I did not modify the content of the .htaccess file.
The code I posted earlier was obtained via Filezilla / View File.

Try this file, and rename it

 

 

htacces.txt

[Thomas Taschler]

2 minutes ago, Adlago said:

Try this file, and rename it

 

 

htacces.txt 297 B · 0 downloads

Tried this file, still the same error.

[Jim M]

Is mod_rewrite installed on Apache?

[Thomas Taschler]

3 minutes ago, Jim M said:

Is mod_rewrite installed on Apache?

Yes, this is my phpinfo() output:

Edited September 27, 2023 by Thomas Taschler

[Jim M]

2 minutes ago, Thomas Taschler said:

Yes, this is my phpinfo() output:

You would need to contact your hosting provider then if you're having issues with this. By all intense of purposes, you should be able to run it.

[Thomas Taschler]

I solved the problem!
It was an Apache2 configuration error...

I am sorry for wasting your time...

Solution:

Add at the end of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf the following code:

<Directory "/path/to/your/site">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Then restart Apache and it should work.

[Jim M]

Glad to hear you figured it out!