Software Development:
Individual Programming

Symptom

You have doubts that the Apache mod_rewrite module is turned on and can be used in your .htaccess file. A software will show you that mod_rewrite is missing.

Solution

1. Create a .txt mod_rewrite.txt file in the document root folder of your website with this content:

mod_rewrite is activated.

2. If an .htaccess file already exists in the root folder, rename the file so that it will not be inadvertently changed by the test in the following step.

3. Create an .htaccess file in the document root of your website with this content:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^.*$ mod_rewrite.txt

4. Open your website with a browser. If mod_rewrite is enabled – which is the default in all webspace accounts – you'll see this output:

mod_rewrite is activated.

5. Delete your .htaccess file and rename the backup you made in step (2.) back to .htaccess.

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