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My mod_rewrite rules make my website stop loading.

Some downloadable PHP software packages use mod_rewrite to do dynamic URL rewriting. If the rewrite directives (contained in .htaccess files) seem to make your website hang indefinitely, they are probably causing an infinite loop. You can fix this by adding a "RewriteBase" directive to the .htaccess file that has your other rewrite directives.

If your package is installed at the DocumentRoot (http://yoursite.com/) then the solution may be to add the following:

RewriteBase /

If your package is installed in a subdirectory of the DocumentRoot (http://yoursite.com/something/), then try making that subdirectory the RewriteBase like so:

RewriteBase /something

User-Contributed Notes

anonymous -at- example.com 16-Apr-2005 12:20 Drupal also works fine with this setting.

cprice[nospam]ever -at- pcsintel.com 31-May-2006 10:03 This also applies to Joomla, despite only returning a search result for Mambo.

anonymous -at- example.com 29-Jul-2006 20:03 Textpattern needs this fix in addition to their own recommended .htaccess file.

mike -at- mit.edu.invalid 08-Nov-2006 18:17 To use textpattern with Clean URLs, I not only had to add the RewriteBase directive, I also had to make a change in the default textpattern .htaccess file to use a fully qualified path to index.php in the last RewriteRule. I changed: RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php to: RewriteRule ^(.*) /index.php

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