.htaccess not working (mod_rewrite)

Question

I have not having any luck getting my .htaccess with mod_rewrite working. Basically all I am trying to do is remove \'www\' from \"http://www.example.com\" and \"https://ww

Answer 1

You can easily test if your htaccess is being read or not:

• Put garbage in it, like:

  Options +FollowSymLinks
  This is garbage
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*) [NC]
  RewriteRule (.*) //%1/$1 [L,R=301]
  

  If you get a 500 error (Internal Server Error) then it IS being read.

  If it is, you should enable the RewriteLog in the main server configuration (not in .htaccess) like this:

  RewriteLog "/tmp/rewrite.log"
  RewriteLogLevel 9
  

And then check the file /tmp/rewrite.log to see what's happening. Report back with results.

(Stack Overflow isn't a good debugging medium, IRC is better for that, try #apache@irc.freenode.net)

Good luck.