Suggestion for .htaccess enhancement

Question

I would suggest to enhance .htaccess a little bit.
My proposition:

 

# The following IF prevents "Error 500; Internal Server Error" if the server doesn't support rewriteBase.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

#AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

DirectoryIndex index.php

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)//(.*)$

RewriteRule . %1/%2 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?qa-rewrite=$0&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

</IfModule>

 

As long as RewriteBase should have always / as a value (even if the script is placed in some subfolder), "your-sub-folder" can be dropped.

 

Any more suggestions / upgrades ?

 

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion. I will add the <IfModule...> wrapper for 1.5 beta 2, but RewriteBase should remain commented out by default, since it can break the .htaccess if the Q2A site is in a subdirectory. Also I am cautious about adding AddType/AddHandler directives because this doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone, and it could interfere with the Apache configuration.

Comments

Okay. However, it is misleading to have "# RewriteBase /your-sub-folder" instead of "# RewriteBase /' - because only the second option will work both when the webside is placed in a rootfolder OR in a subfolder.

(I had such an experience. Maybe in some cases "your-sub-folder" would be needed, but I didn't find them).

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Yes, you're right about that. Now it will be only: #RewriteBase /