Hey guys,

Heres another ExpressionEngine extension to add to my list of EE Addons. Introducing LG .htaccess Generator.

LG .htaccess Generator Multi-Site Manager compatible ExpressionEngine extension that automatically generates and updates your sites .htaccess file everytime an entry, template group or template is created or modified.

Using special {ee:} tags LG .htaccess Generator allows you to easily remove your sites index.php file using the “Include List Method”.

Check out the documentation which is now available on my site!

Enjoy, feedback is appreciated.

BRILLIANT!  Going to install tonight!

BTW, Quick turn around from idea to production!

With docs and testing it was a couple of days on and off. Another EE itch scratched!

I have noticed one problem… When I go to my /system to get my control panel… My default site shows up. However when I go to /system/index.php it shows up. Maybe adding an exclusion by referencing the $cp_url & $system_path?

Do you have a template group named the same as your cp directory?

No, I only have the CP directory.

Hmmm… can you post your generated .htaccess file in a pastie so we can have a look at it? http://pastie.org/

Here it is, I am on MediaTemple in case you’re wondering.

Why Pastie BTW?

UPDATED: Added the remainder of the .htaccess

First thing I noticed is that the {ee:404} tag is not being rendered. I’m guessing thats because you don’t have a 404 page setup in EE.

Secondd thing is that it seems you have only pasted half your .htaccess. Wheres the “Include Method” part?

I figured it out. I forgot that the extension will create the .htaccess for all MSM domains. I have a directory called admin on another domain. The reason its there is for my clients to go to /admin instead of /admin.php. Any ideas to work around this? I’m thinking that I just need to delete the other domains until they are actually using them.

This is the setup i used: http://expressionengine.com/docs/installation/masked_cp_access.html

I will have to create the 404 Page soon.

Removed directory… still having the same problem…

The extension has per site settings so you can turn off .htaccess generation for each individual site.

You might also need to add /admin to the list of included template groups manually

Hmmm… When I hit Submit and Generate I get:

MySQL ERROR:

Error Number: 1146

Description: Table ‘ee_default_install.exp_template_groups WHERE site_id = 1’ doesn’t exist

Query: SELECT group_name FROM `exp_template_groups WHERE site_id = 1

My bad ... accidentally uploaded the dev version… grab the download again

Workin’ great now, love it love it love it

Yay, sorry of the mix up

When I test this locally, it works great, using the htaccess just as its included in the extension.

However, when I deploy to my development server I have a couple issues.
If I leave in the “Remove IE image toolbar” lines, I immediately get a server error.  Commenting them out fixes it.

Also, my system directory isn’t available. mysite.com/systemfolder just goes to the homepage.  Again, testing the same thing locally (MAMP) works fine.

I tried a variety of changes but could not get the include method to work on the server.  As soon as I switched to the exclude method as I was doing before, my system dir is available again.

Any ideas?

I just uploaded a tweak to the extension. The extension will only regenerate the .htaccess if the entry is a page or the template group has been modified which means you won’t see the success notification all the time.

Cheers