.htaccess not working

Austin9684 · 07:12 PM

Hello all im a bit new to php and html coding and i just recently started a website for me a a few friends and im having some trouble with .htaccess

I have set up a website with a forum and a main page and the forums (phpbb) index page is names index.php and the main page (the one i want to show up by default) is called index.html . I have noticed that 000webhosting has priority for index.php over index.html so i looked up some stuff and i created an .htaccess file

this is what it looks like

Code:

RewriteBase /
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php

I have been trying to get this to work for a little under 2 days and i finally decided to post here it would be difficult to change the links on all 500+ pages of the forum so instead i thought that .htaccess file would be my best bet

ShocK · 08-02-2012, 07:10 PM

Your home page and your forum home page are both called index.php?

Austin9684 · 08-02-2012, 07:11 PM

No, the main page is called index.html and the forum is called index.php

ShocK · 08-02-2012, 07:21 PM

I just tested this and it works no problem for me

Code:

RewriteBase /
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Are you sure it's not a cache problem?

Austin9684 · 07:30 PM

I tried with 3 different browsers and cleared my cache in all of them it just gives me the good old 404 error

http://error404.000webhost.com/

EDIT

I dont know if you need it or not, the like to my website is

survivalvortex.tk

ShocK · 08-02-2012, 07:37 PM

I can't get to either index.html or index.php files on that URL, is that all that's in your .htaccess?

Austin9684 · 08-02-2012, 07:38 PM

Yes that is all that is in my .htaccess

ShocK · 08-02-2012, 07:48 PM

I can't get to any standard phpbb3 forum pages either, faq.php, ucp.php etc. Can you access any pages at all? Have you logged into members area? Any messages?

Austin9684 · 08-02-2012, 07:56 PM

when i have the .htaccess page up with only the 1st line "RewriteBase /" i can access all the pages by typing them in manualy but then when i add "DirectoryIndex index.html index.php" nothing works

ShocK · 08-02-2012, 08:03 PM

This is a standard .htaccess file for 000webhost with phpbb3 installed and one redirect to index.html (working)

Code:

#
# Uncomment the statement below if you want to make use of
# HTTP authentication and it does not already work.
# This could be required if you are for example using PHP via Apache CGI.
#
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization},L]
#</IfModule>

<Files "config.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>

<Files "common.php">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from All
</Files>
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php