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Htaccess RewriteRule for maping urls to be served from one file – CPanel

I had htaccess which worked for many years with a command like this:

RewriteRule ^products/(.*).php  product.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}

Mapping all items under products folder to be served with product.php file

Today, suddenly all URLs started giving 404. After many hours of digging, I found that the command now works only if there is an actual file (even empty file – it doesn’t matter) under the products folder. For example, products/p1.php would work only if p1.php resides under the products folder.

I also run a test and added:

RewriteRule ^tests/(.*).php  tests/index.php

and an index.php file under tests folder with hello world. It will only work for files that actually in tests folder. tests/testing.php will show index.php content only if there is a file testing.php in tests folder.

Does anybody have an idea what could have changed at the server configuration to cause this or if there is a way to fix my command to work without an actual file in the location of the URL?

Edited 1st of November 2018:

I found this in the httpd.conf:

<IfModule proxy_fcgi_module>
<FilesMatch .(phtml|php[0-9]*)$>
SetHandler proxy:unix:/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/usr/var/run/php-fpm/.sock|fcgi://mydomain.com
</FilesMatch>
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .php$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) - [H=text/html]
</IfModule>

Could that be the reason?

Another Update:

So this line

RewriteRule ^tests/(.*)  tests/index.php

Will work for existing files and also for non-existing directory.
so tests/dir1/ will redirect fine. But test/file.php will only redirect if file.php actually exist.

One more update (sorry I’m debugging it and finding our more stuff):

The redirect will fail only for PHP files! all other files will work correctly.

Final Solution:

These three lines in httpd.conf need to be commented. 

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} .php$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_URI} !-f
RewriteRule (.*) - [H=text/html]

I suspect they are auto-generated by some Cpanel updated and will try to report this to them.

Thank you

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Answers


  1. 0

    At first you need to make life more clearer and stop further rules execution by [L] option:

    RewriteRule ^products/(.*).php  product.php?page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

    If doesn’t help – there will be rules before yours quoted one executed with a priority.

    Something with 

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

    condition.
    Check your .htaccess if you have those rules.
    If you control /etc/apache2/ or /etc/httpd/ folder – check root webserver configs for those.
    Otherwise you need to contact your hosting provider.

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  2. 0

    yshaool I have the exact same problem with you. My search for a solution lead me also to the httpd.conf.
    I commented out the 3 Rewrite lines and restarted Apache. Now it works OK. I’m afraid that this is auto generated file and it will overwritten some time.

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