Is it actually writing anything to the .htaccess?

Have you tried using a full path like “C:\wamp\www\mysite.htaccess”?

Is it actually writing anything to the .htaccess? Have you tried using a full path like “C:\wamp\www\mysite.htaccess”?

I used the full path, and now it is writing to the .htaccess file properly, but it is still not working.

same error about

Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /test on this server.

Did you enable mod_rewrite? To turn it on click the WAMP icon in the system tray go to Apache > Apache Modules and make sure rewrite_module is checked

Is your site outside the C:/wamp/www folder? If it is you may have to add something to your vhost config

Example vhost

<VirtualHost *:80> <Directory “C:\path\to\site”> AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> DocumentRoot “C:\path\to\site” ServerName test.local </VirtualHost>

Did you enable mod_rewrite? To turn it on click the WAMP icon in the system tray go to Apache > Apache Modules and make sure rewrite_module is checked Is your site outside the C:/wamp/www folder? If it is you may have to add something to your vhost config Example vhost

<VirtualHost *:80> <Directory “C:\path\to\site”> AllowOverride all Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> DocumentRoot “C:\path\to\site” ServerName test.local </VirtualHost>

Yes, I have rewrite_module enabled.

My vhosts is configured like this.

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1> DocumentRoot “C:/Work/Workspace/SLO/WEB” ServerName slo.local <Directory “C:/Work/Workspace/SLO/WEB”> Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks Allow from all AllowOverride All </Directory> </VirtualHost>

First question is can you see: http://mysite.local/index.php?news_articles/view/top_story_article_3/ . That will determine if this is actually a .htaccess issue.

I am having the same problem getting the extension to work when running EE on WAMP.

If I access http://localhost/index.php/about/contact I view the content, however, if I access http://localhost/about/contact I get NOT FOUND.

I specified the path the .htaccess file as just “.htaccess” as the file is in the root of the site.

The file is being written to by the extension as this is what is in the file:

– NSM .htaccess Generator Start –

.htaccess generated by NSM .htaccess Generator v1.1.3

@see: http://ee-garage.com/nsm-htaccess-generator

For more awesome .htaccess rules and optimisations

checkout the HTML5 Boilerplate .htaccess files

https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htaccess

Although highly unlikely, your host may have +FollowSymLinks enabled at the root level,

yet disallow its addition in .htaccess; in which case,

adding +FollowSymLinks will break your setup (probably a 500 error),

so just remove it, and your rules should work fine.

Options +FollowSymlinks

EE 404 page for missing pages

ErrorDocument 404 /index.php/about/404

Simple 404 for missing files

<FilesMatch “(.jpe?g|gif|png|bmp|css|js|flv)$”> ErrorDocument 404 “File Not Found” </FilesMatch>

Rewriting will likely already be on, uncomment if it isnt

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

</IfModule>

Block access to “hidden” directories whose names begin with a period. This

includes directories used by version control systems such as Subversion or Git.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteRule “(^|/).” - [F] </IfModule>

remove the www - Uncomment to activate

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.+)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule>

Remove the trailing slash to paths without an extension

Uncomment to activate

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [R=301,L]

</IfModule>

Remove index.php

Uses the “include method”

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/Remove_index.php_From_URLs/#Include_List_Method

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(ACT=.)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(about|global_embeds|news|search|members|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC] RewriteRule (.) /index.php/$1 [L]

– NSM .htaccess Generator End –

Any pointers would be much appreciated.