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Posted on November 15th, 2009 in tips & tricks

How to make mod_rewrite work on wamp

Tags: htaccess, wamp

I have been wondering for a long time now why mod_rewrite didn’t work on wamp and actually it’s quite easy even if I had to spend a lot of time searching.

In this quick tutorial I will show you how to make mod_rewrite work in wamp

First of all make sure the rewrite module is active on your wamp.

So right click on the wamp icon and go to apache->apache module and make sure rewrite module is checked

Now here is a small piece of my htaccess and of course it will only work on my live website, otherwise I wouldn’t be writting this article.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ ./$1.php
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ /cmstut/view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Now let’s make this work on wamp

As you can see  RewriteBase is set to / but my website on my wamp server is actually in the folder cmstut and not the root of wamp, so I need to change it to RewriteBase /cmstut/

next thing is to change the rewrite url from

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ ./$1.php
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ ./view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]

to

RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /cmstut/$1.php
RewriteRule ^tutorial/([0-9]+)$ /cmstut/view_tutorial.php?tutorial_id=$1 [QSA,L]

of course replace cmstut folder name with your folder unless your site is in the root of wamp.
In that case I don’t think you need to change anything to your .htaccess file