I am trying to get ready for php5 since php4.4 will no longer be supported after the end of this year. So I loaded Xampp and gave it a whirl. First problem was I got a 500 server error when I tried my first site. Since I know nothing about these things, it must have been the Holy Ghost who told me that I needed to check if mod rewrite was enabled.

Since I have no idea how to do that I had to do a search and here is what I found:

By default mod_rewrite module is not enabled. I usually just put in a ticket to the help desk and ask them to enable such things. Since that is not an option (I have to ticket system to ask myself to do things) I had to turn it on.

To enable mod_rewrite in xampp open windows explorer and go to the installation directory {xampp-directory}\apache\conf and edit httpd.conf.

Do a search for

#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
and take out the little # thing (uncomment it). It should now look like this:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Also find AllowOverride None

Should be:

AllowOverride All

It is correct once and wrong twice in the file. And that should do it!

I know this blog is getting more and more techy but I am not tech guy and this is what it takes sometimes to keep things going!

hattip: rudy

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