Comments on: mod_rewrite and Mac OS X Personal Web Sharing

By: James King

James King — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:00:10 +0000

Many thanks, very useful. As a Leopard user I also had to change /etc/apache2/users/yourusername.conf as mentioned in Luca’s comment above.

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:44:31 +0000

I noticed that folders inside 'Documents' cannot be symlinked. Apache seems to ignore these symbolic links. Is there a way to force apache ?

ps: on Leopard the config file is located at: /etc/apache2/users/yourusername.conf

thnx!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:23:03 +0000

I bashed against this one for a long time before thinking to search around to see if anyone else had the same problem. Thanks for posting this!

By: Robert Coster

Robert Coster — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:11:17 +0000

I love you I think, i’ve been trying to get mod_rewrite to work so I can get up and running with the Zend Framework. Until I came here, there was no luck. Thank you……

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:07:41 +0000

Same situation as Jeff Mackey-

Very useful post. Thank you so much.

By: Jeff Mackey

Jeff Mackey — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:37:51 +0000

Found your site via Google search on Wordpress, MacOSX and permalinks. Your post solved my problem and saved me countless frustrating hours. Just wanted to say thank you very much!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:53:33 +0000

Please excuse me for replying to a post that is several months old, but if all you want to do is tell your web server to honor the .htaccess files, isn't adding "AuthConfig" to the "AllowOverride" directive all that is required?

Are the other options you changed ("Options FollowSymLinks" and "AllowOverride All") needed to get Wordpress working, but not strictly needed for turning on .htaccess files?

By: David

David — Tue, 22 May 2007 08:29:49 +0000

No need to feel stupid.

Worth pointing out that I used TextMate (mate) above to modify my file.

If you prepend the command with sudo, it'll prompt you for your password, and that'll then allow you to save the file. If you don't, and you're using TextMate, when you go to save the file, a prompt will appear asking you for your password.

It really depends on what text editor your using, and the command you use in the Terminal to determine when you're asked for your password.

By: Milos

Milos — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:23:39 +0000

Feel stupid for saying this, but I’m very new to Mac’s. I can load the config file but I cant seem to save it. It doesn’t allow me to overwrite it.