mod_rewrite and DirectoryIndex

[andygeers]

Hi there,

 

My hosting company recently upgraded me from Apache 1 to Apache 2, and I've started seeing some quite different behaviour with my mod_rewrite stuff.

 

Here's my .htaccess file:

 

DirectoryIndex blog.php
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

# Various rewrite rules.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'showpage.php?url=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*showpage\.php.*$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*ppotd_sm\.php.*$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*rss/.*$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*scripts/.*$
  RewriteRule ^(.*\.(php|html))$ showpage.php?url=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

 

Now, previously with Apache 1, if you went to http://mysite.com/  then the DirectoryIndex would first take effect (http://mysite.com/blog.php) and then the RewriteRule would turn that into http://mysite.com/showpage.php?url=/blog.php

 

Now with Apache 2, if you go to http://mysite.com/blog.php it gets rewritten as expected, but if you go to http://mysite.com/ it serves you the vanilla blog.php file, without rewriting it to showpage.php. It's as though the DirectoryIndex stops it also doing the RewriteRule.

 

Any thoughts?