Rewrite Not Working

[znaji]

Hi

 

Rewrite rules will not work on cheap hosted godaddy server however rewrite works locally. Can someone le me know whats wrong or the right way please.

 

Working locally but not hosted.

 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

#AddType application/x-httpd-php .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml
#AddHandler x-httpd-php5-3  .php

RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/comment/([0-9]+) statusview.php?s=$2&user=$1
RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/notifications notifications.php?userid=$1
RewriteRule ^profile/([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+) profile.php?id=$1
RewriteRule ^create-account create-account.php
RewriteRule ^forgot-password forgot-password.php
RewriteRule ^about about.php
RewriteRule ^privacy privacy.php
RewriteRule ^terms-of-service terms-of-service.php
RewriteRule ^contact contact.php
RewriteRule ^login login.php
RewriteRule ^([a-z_-]+)/([a-z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+) comment.php?subcat=$3
RewriteRule ^category/([a-zA-Z_-]+) category.php?cat=$1
RewriteRule ^how-it-works how-it-works.php
RewriteRule ^updates updates.php

 

Link http://www.example.com/profile/john does not work have to use

http://www.example.com/profile.php?id=john

to test.

[PravinS]

check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php.ini

[znaji]

check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php.ini

Thank you I was over thinking it. However I found a simple soultion for Godaddy hosting (In my case).

Just add the follwoing and it fixed it right away.

#Fix Rewrite

Options -Multiviews

[Ch0cu3r]

check if mod_rewrite is enabled in php.ini

mod_rewrite is not a PHP extension! It is an Apache module, which you can enable in the httpd.conf

[PravinS]

mod_rewrite is not a PHP extension! It is an Apache module, which you can enable in the httpd.conf

 

yeah, thanks for correcting