mysite/manual has a unexpected result.

jerry_louise

Not sure if this is a php issue but when i go to the site i am making http://cabbit.nanashi.co.uk/ and click on manual it brings back a dead page on localhost and the apache manual on http://cabbit.nanashi.co.uk/manual/

How do i make it work like any other page?

halojoy

Probably one setting in Apache httpd.conf
In the so called Alias module setting tells a request for /manual/
should be redirected to the Apache Manual directory.
Which is folder beside /htdocs/

jerry_louise

Is there a way to disable this alias in .htaccess?

bradgrafelman

I would contact your host and see what they have to say. One thing you might be able to do is override the default alias with one of your own, assuming you know the local file system path to the root of your website. Example:

Alias /manual/ /home/yoursite/html/manual/

jerry_louise

My current htaccess file rewrites everything to the index. So how would i change or make a new rule to include the manual into this?

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?rt=$1 [PT,L]

jay6390

hmm, not sure on how to change the alias, but you should definitely change your htaccess file up a bit. for a start, you don't want to route everything through the index file, such as files that actually exists on the server such as images, css files etc
Change your code to something like

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) public/index.php?rt=$1 [PT,L]

I would also consider removing the need to pass the route via $GET and instead just use $SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] instead

jerry_louise

Theres actually two .htaccess files. This was necessary in order to get the side to start of in the public folder. If i remove the public htaccess and make the root one the same then the directory structure is shown instead of the index page.

one at the root

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/index.php?rt=$1 [PT,L]

and one inside public

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) public/index.php?rt=$1 [PT,L]