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.htaccess breaks site link in control panel?

October 10, 2012 12:59pm

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#1 / Oct 10, 2012 12:59pm
Frank Harrison
154 posts
Hi all

I’ve got a site that uses a fairly customised .htaccess file - the host (34SP) edited the default one to get a few things (mainly removing index.php) working. It now looks like this:
```
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    # Enable Apache's RewriteEngine
    RewriteEngine On

    # Add Trailing Slashes to URLs
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.+[^/])$ /$1/ [R=301,L]

    # ExpressionEngine Remove index.php from URLs
#    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST  <- I COMMENTED THIS OUT MYSELF TO GET FORMS WORKING
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
```
My client’s just noticed that the link in the top right of the control panel which takes you to the front-end of the site doesn’t work. Clicking it takes you to http://www.mysite.com/?URL=http://www.mysite.com/ - I guess that’s where it’s meant to point, but then EE’s meant to do something clever and pass that on to http://www.mysite.com/ ?

My first guess was that something we edited in the .htaccess file might have broken that functionality. Any ideas? I’m pretty stupid with .htaccess and I’m not sure how EE handles that link, so not really sure where to start!

Thanks, Frank
#2 / Oct 12, 2012 12:18pm

Kevin Smith
4784 posts

Hi Frank,

In terms of the .htaccess file, we can only offer limited support, but let’s take it out of the picture completely and see what the behavior is. Could you temporarily disable it, add index.php back into the your URLs (reverse this step), and let me know what the behavior is?
#3 / Oct 15, 2012 11:23am

Frank Harrison
154 posts

Hi Kevin

Looks like my guess was wrong - just removed the .htaccess rules and added index.php back, and the same thing - I click on the link and I go to http://www.mysite.com/index.php?URL=http://www.mysite.com/index.php which is again a blank page, and it doesn’t forward to http://www.mysite.com/index.php. Any ideas what else could be stopping this from working?

Thanks, Frank
#4 / Oct 16, 2012 11:08am
Robin Sowell
13255 posts
Odd. What should be happening- if the url has URL in the get- it opens libraries/Redirect.php. That should dump a string and exit. If you look at the source of the blank page- is it blank too? Or is there content a la
```
"<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=utf-8'/>\n<title>Redirect</title>\n". etc….
```
And if it’s blank…. If you edit system/expressionengine/libraries/Redirect.php at the very top:
```
if ( ! isset($_GET['URL'])) 
{ 
 exit();
}

change exit(); to

 exit('Failed redirect');
```
Either of those give us a hint as to where it’s failing?
#5 / Oct 16, 2012 12:19pm

Frank Harrison
154 posts

Hi Robin

The source code is blank. I just tried editing system/expressionengine/libraries/Redirect.php and get the same thing - blank page, blank source code. Does that help?

Thanks, Frank
#6 / Oct 17, 2012 10:48am

Robin Sowell
13255 posts

Hrm- no. LOL. I’m dropping you an email as I think we may need to take a closer look. Odd one!
#7 / Oct 19, 2012 5:44am

Frank Harrison
154 posts

Thanks Robin. Just responded to that!
#8 / Oct 22, 2012 5:22pm

Shane Eckert
7174 posts

Hello,

To anyone following this thread, we are working with Frank in private support and will report back here with anything we find.

Thank you,
#9 / Oct 23, 2012 5:23pm

Kevin Smith
4784 posts

Looks like the trouble on this one was an outdated version of the site’s main index.php file. Resolved!